A reader asks Matt who he believes was the worst President in United States history.

Matt responds:

I think that is a great question for a historian.  Historically, it’s an important question, not in the sense of rating the dead, but to look into the actions, why they were taken, what their ramifications are, what the intended and unintended consequences were, what they mean to us, and did we or didn’t we learn anything from them.

I don’t have a list of best and worst Presidents.  I feel that I am in most cases powerless to do anything except vote if I have an issue I think is important.

I have many times been known to go out and campaign door to door, give donations, make speeches...  But if I don’t know anything about an issue, I make a point to keep my mouth shut.

That might be a selfish way of looking at it, but I also believe very strongly that evil succeeds when good men do nothing.  I don’t know if I’m a good man, but if I see evil, I don’t just sit with my finger in my ass; I run out and scream and holler and make changes.  Sometimes I get in trouble.

At the end, I feel good about it, because I did something.  If we’re not going to do anything, then we’re part of the problem.

The Founding Fathers were rebels, and they knew very personally—and it shows very clearly in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—that we can’t blame our problems on “them.”  There is no “them.”  There is only us.

Are we sitting with blindfolds, waiting for something to happen?  I believe that when the water hits your lower lip, you’d better say something!

Matt