Maybe I'm not crazy after all...

My biggest issue with the Democratic Party is that the party as a whole is led by elitists who believe wholeheartedly that the individuals who inhabit this country are not capable of running their own lives. Thus, they believe we need the Liberal Elites to dictate the course of our lives for us. They make decisions on our behalf and utilize extra-democratic means to enforce them. They put forth policies which interfere with our own abilities to choose where we send our children to school, what words we can say, what religious practices are acceptable, how to defend ourselves, how to spend our own money, how to plan for our own retirement, how to manage our finances and where to work. Most recently, they have even been working in Michigan and Florida to ensure that the people don't get in the way of the Liberal Elite's decision on who gets to run for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket.

All of this comes from the Liberal Elite's innate feeling of superiority over the common American. They know how to run your life better than you do. This all comes from their condescending view of the common American. This has long been one of my most tightly held beliefs - that much of the Democratic policy is made by Liberal Elitists who believe the common American is incapable of running his or her own life.

It looks like Senator Joe Biden agrees about this condescension. In an interview at the New Hampshire Union Leader on Thursday, he pointed out that the Democrats don't trust the American people. While I stridently disagree with Sen. Biden on quite a few issues, it's good to see a Democrat recognize that so many of his fellow Democrats are elitists and making noise, at least, about moving away from that condescension.

Biden: Democrats have lost faith in the American People
New Hampshire Union Leader

Sen. Joe Biden said in an interview at the New Hampshire Union Leader this afternoon that too many Democrats, including the frontrunners for the presidential nomination, do not have faith in the American people.

"We've got to trust the American people more," Biden said.

"I think they've really lost faith in the American people in terms of leveling with them," he said of his leading rivals.

When he asks groups of Democrats if they think the American people are stupid because they elected George W. Bush twice, most respond that yes, they do, he said. HE said he thinks that attitude is a real problem for the Democrats, who fail to understand how smart and pragmatic the American people are.

Biden was generally critical of the far left wing of his party and of the strategies the frontrunners are using to win the nomination.

Asked if he thinks, as he suggested recently in another interview, that the other candidates tend to think the American people are stupid or easily fooled, he said, "Well, I do."