Please accept my apologies to using a Charlie Sykes quote to make a point. I greatly respect Charlie and what he has done in the past few years with Bulwark. The quote I have in mind is...
"I’m a conservative who believes in things like freedom and limited government and constitutionalism."
After reading the books "Kochland" and "Democracy…
Please accept my apologies to using a Charlie Sykes quote to make a point. I greatly respect Charlie and what he has done in the past few years with Bulwark. The quote I have in mind is...
"I’m a conservative who believes in things like freedom and limited government and constitutionalism."
After reading the books "Kochland" and "Democracy in Chains", that quote sounds more Libertarian, all dressed up because Libertarianism is a non-starter in a democratic republic.
When I hear "freedom" spoken by conservatives, I think freedom from any communitarian economic impulse ala Milton Freidman's NY Time article in the early 70s.
When I hear "limited government", I increasingly think "limited democracy" to limit the majority. I'm thinking of actions like gerrymandered districts, voter purges, and the gutting of the voting rights act.
When I hear "constitutionalism" I think of law and order but a law and order where protection of the wealthy and powerful against others is the focus.
Make no mistake, I am a capitalist. Yet my capitalism and my democracy gives equal power to each individual. My capitalism and my democracy recognizes the essential nature of both human capital and financial capital and assures that our system seeks a balance between redistribution of human capital to financial capital and redistribution via tax and government action to assure the health of the community (human capital).
Please accept my apologies to using a Charlie Sykes quote to make a point. I greatly respect Charlie and what he has done in the past few years with Bulwark. The quote I have in mind is...
"I’m a conservative who believes in things like freedom and limited government and constitutionalism."
After reading the books "Kochland" and "Democracy in Chains", that quote sounds more Libertarian, all dressed up because Libertarianism is a non-starter in a democratic republic.
When I hear "freedom" spoken by conservatives, I think freedom from any communitarian economic impulse ala Milton Freidman's NY Time article in the early 70s.
When I hear "limited government", I increasingly think "limited democracy" to limit the majority. I'm thinking of actions like gerrymandered districts, voter purges, and the gutting of the voting rights act.
When I hear "constitutionalism" I think of law and order but a law and order where protection of the wealthy and powerful against others is the focus.
Make no mistake, I am a capitalist. Yet my capitalism and my democracy gives equal power to each individual. My capitalism and my democracy recognizes the essential nature of both human capital and financial capital and assures that our system seeks a balance between redistribution of human capital to financial capital and redistribution via tax and government action to assure the health of the community (human capital).