What Do You Think?

Theodore Roosevelt once said, "I don't care what people think, I only know what they ought to think."

Unfortunately, that seems to be the attitude of those in leadership positions both in Madison and Washington D.C. Ideology has taken over where reality should reign supreme. We saw it with President Bush and his veto of embryonic stem cell research. The far right neo-con mindset is one of telling what to think rather than asking you what you think and then acting upon it. Not exactly what our founding fathers had in mind. They had that silly notion that government is to be "of the people, by the people, for the people" Today's "leadership" seems to find that notion to be something of an inconvenience.

I'll expand upon this thought later. I am rolling up the sleeves and getting ready to head to Platteville this evening to meet with Governor Doyle and his cabinet at the Strawberry Festival. I'm gonna tell them what I think, and I'll not settle for them telling me what I ought to think.