Great Vocal Majority Podcast

 Let me begin with my conclusion: politicians do not solve problems. They live off them. They may careers off them. They enrich themselves by perpetuating these problems. Often, they will make a problem worse, which will compel greater demand for their intervention and resolution. But can you think of any social problem that was ever solved through the intervention of politicians and government? Some my counter that the issue of slavery  was resolved through government and politicians. While it is true that the institution of slavery in America was "solved" by the Civil War, it was not the wars original purpose, even though it might have been its most proximate cause. Slavery was ended by Lincoln to give the north a moral justification for the horrendous waste of life with such a bloody war. Still, it required force of arms and many elements of American society today live with the aftereffects of this solution to the problem. Social ills of less fundamental importance than slavery  have found no solution amon