Huckabee: The Best Form of Government

What would you consider the best government of all? Many of us would utter 'republic', 'democracy' or some other way of saying our government. Who wouldn't say those things about a country whose GDP is greater than the next four countries combined! Yet Mike Huckabee, in his book 'Do the Right Thing', posits a different answer. To Mike, the most effective government is 'self-government.' In today's climate, what a radical notion this is. You mean I actually have to attempt to fix things for myself first before asking everyone else to take care of me??

Why can't folks govern their own behavior, own up to mistakes, and stop doing stupid, hurtful, things? Why do so many leaders feign integrity during the day, and when nobody is looking indulge in terribly indecent things? Why are people always trying to get around the system? Why do we let states decide issues of common morality like abortion and marriage? How in the world can Massachusetts decide gay marriage is fine but Ohio says it isn't? People used to inherently understand killing innocent children was at the least unwise for keeping your population growing. People used to know same sex marriages at the least hurt society's ability to procreate and continue our greatness. Not anymore! With each "around the system" act committed by citizens our legislature develops a new law to combat the new wrinkle.

In Huckabee's fictional town, "Hucktown", the best form of government is COMMON SENSE guided by introspection.

You see, for Mr. Mike the root of so many problems is too many self indulgent people. The secular progressives, with their anything goes attitude, are completely dismantling personal responsibility. Oh, don't worry, PERSONAL CHOICE is alive and well, but "treating others as you want to be treated" is becoming a foreign concept these days. Do what I want to do no matter the cost to others is the new mantra.

"Hucktown's" first attempt at problem solving is asking its citizenry to evaluate their own behavior. In Mike's world, each citizen asks if they should have behaved differently in any given circumstance before asking BIG government to address the problem with a new law. Without these new, ever changing laws, comes even more freedom for Hucktown's population. Crime all of a sudden drops because folks refuse to take the easy way out of their problems. No tax decreases or increases are needed. Prosperity returns simply because people treat other people well. Sounds like manna from Heaven doesn't it?? The point of emphasis in Hucktown shifts from I do what I want and you deal with it to I do what I want until it interferes negatively on those around me. And I CHOOSE to do the right thing not I am FORCED to do the right thing.

Hucktown sure sounds good to me. Granted, it is a fictional place, and a place of perfection we can never attain. But the ideals of Hucktown's citizens should be our ideals. Let's stop putting me first. Sure, we have the freedom to do so, but what is the cost of this freedom?? Take a quick look at our fractured country and it shouldn't take long to sink in. Think of others today. Not because you are forced to, but because you want to.