More thinking, less ‘do-gooding’

More thinking, less ‘do-gooding’

This letter is in response to a letter to the editor from Diane Niesman on March 4. In her letter supporting Leslie Coolidge, Ms. Niesman quotes the Daily Herald: “She pledged to take positions based on facts and the district’s needs, not on political orthodoxy.”

I take this statement to mean, that Ms. Niesman and the Daily Herald support this candidate because she tries to find practical solutions to the needs of the district without being constrained by any ideology of government. If that is true, then that is one of the main things that is wrong with this country, and instead of being free from ideology, it springs from an ideology that what is right is what works.

This whole political season has been focus on trying to find the right “smart” guy who can fix our problems and take care of us. But that is not what this country is supposed to be about. The United States is an endeavor in freedom. We are supposed to solve our own problems. The federal government is supposed to be constrained by the rule of law, the ideology that the federal government is limited and the idea that people have freedoms.

The more “positions” the federal government takes to solve the district’s needs unconstrained by ideology, the more intrusive and the larger government gets. The more intrusive and larger the government gets, the greater the rewards for influencing and controlling government, and the fewer our freedoms. We become more like a corrupt Third World country where to the victor belong the spoils, and the further we travel down the road to serfdom.

We need more ideology in our political discourse, not less. We need more thinking and real debate of ideas, and less “do gooding.”

Mark Bodett

Wheaton