(05-25-2016, 02:37 AM)taramarie Wrote: How would you suggest then the actions needed to be taken to change the system and fix what needs to be fixed? Other than free markets. We have already addressed that but how do you make that a reality? What steps need to be taken to make that happen? I would like to see action being taken to change the corrupt system.
Right now, people on the whole find the current system tolerable. Given the appearance of Trump that state of affairs is starting to change. At that point questions start to be asked and you point them to the answers. The rest will take care of itself. Until a question is asked it is impossible to enlighten people. I don't agree with this guy on many things but he has spotted the main problem, the citizens themselves.
The only action that is possible is for large number of people to simply stop obeying. Until the US has its Soviet Union moment, for pretty much the same reasons, this will not happen and the status quo will be maintained. It looks like at the very least Trump has made a deal with Sheldon Adelson which suggests to me that Trump will turn out to be a disappointment to his followers for much the same reason Reagan and Obozo were to theirs.
In that moment of disappointment then perhaps the faith in the omnipotence of the state will be broken. After all, that is precisely what happened in the Soviet Union. Hard to say what will happen after that but when the state is considered a total failure then interest in the Founders and the principles of individual liberty may be rediscovered. Then again, it may not.
Until then I will continue the attempt to enlighten those that refuse to think, Eric the Obtuse for example, for the benefit of those who will.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises