Reader wonders if our nation has 'bought' an administration

Hans Christian Andersen wrote a story many years ago about a couple of weavers who promised to make a new set of clothes for an Emperor.  The cloth that they wove was so fine that it was invisible to anyone who was too stupid andincompetent to appreciate its quality.  It was finally a little boy who, not knowing that he was displaying his stupidity, spoke out loudly saying that the Emperor was naked. The weavers had pulled a scam on the Emperor and his staff.

The United States does not have an Emperor.  It is we, thepeople, who are the sovereign entity. We might equate the "weavers" with the spin doctors of the majority of the news media that has an agenda of selling us on something that is so fine and elegant that only those people who willing to risk being called stupid and incompetent will have the courage to speak out.  In this case, we are not looking at clothes, but at the knowledge and capability of the Executive and his administration.

As for the "little boy" who did not know that his failure to truly appreciate the brilliant leadership of the Emperor was due to stupidity, perhaps it is a few of us gathered together as We, the People, who have not recognized our "stupidity", and together have spoken as "The TEA Party." The question is whether the majority of the population has been like the Emperor.  Have we, as a nation, "bought" an administration that has as much value as the "Emperor's New Clothes"?

-Thomas Fancher

Moses Lake