08-30-2017, 04:31 PM
I'm coming to see wealth inequality as indication of the the country still has a reserve. If we ever really decide to do anything, a means exists to do it. I care far more about there being a minimum floor for things like food, shelter and medical care than the few wanting to build uber yachts. However, with the economy frequently being optimized for Wall Street and Easy Street, you have to hope you can release Main Street when the time comes.
In the same way, much of the alt right just wants to be uncivil to certain minority groups. I personally have no sympathy with that. There has been since Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's time a legal concept that negative rights to not protect the ability to harm others. Thus, you don't have a right to cry 'fire' in a crowded theory, and your right to swing you fist around ends where my nose begins. Old old principles. This very simple concept seems to be missed by many on the alt right. If they are systematically denying members of a certain subculture access, if they thank being cruel is harmless fun protected by the Constitution, they just aren't aware of where negative rights end.
In the same way, much of the alt right just wants to be uncivil to certain minority groups. I personally have no sympathy with that. There has been since Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's time a legal concept that negative rights to not protect the ability to harm others. Thus, you don't have a right to cry 'fire' in a crowded theory, and your right to swing you fist around ends where my nose begins. Old old principles. This very simple concept seems to be missed by many on the alt right. If they are systematically denying members of a certain subculture access, if they thank being cruel is harmless fun protected by the Constitution, they just aren't aware of where negative rights end.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.