As we reflect on the past year, we are faced with a difficult question: are Americans trustworthy? That is, should the American populace be trusted to make decisions for themselves? Can we rely on the average American to make the proper, moral, responsible choice? The ruling class in America would respond with a resounding " NO! " After all, the elites think very little of their subjects. Every public health order issued drips with disdain and assumes that hell itself would break loose if average citizens were given liberty. Government bureaucrats and wealthy tycoons, together comprising our unofficial aristocracy, seek to protect us from ourselves with an almost religious fervor. Given the behavior exhibited by many throughout COVID, it seems that most Americans concur with this assessment of the common man . They do not want freedom. They do not want liberty. They handle responsibility, that indispensable concomitant of fr...