05-05-2017, 07:36 AM
(05-04-2017, 03:21 PM)Galen Wrote:(05-04-2017, 11:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: "Someone else will pay."
Odd that you would complain about Trump doing this when this has always been the mantra of the Dims since everyone of their proposals seem to involve taking money from one group of people to pay the bills of other people.
Yes, we are our brothers' keepers. Responsibility is not simply of the masses toward some Master Class that lives by a lax standard of ethical behavior -- if the system is to be viable.
American capitalism is showing signs of failure because it recognizes no virtues other than elite gain and indulgence. It is on the brink of deciding that millions must die for the opulent splendor of plutocrats, executives, and political hacks.
Your concept of libertarianism is to give all power to the Master Class so that their economic and political order can best serve the rest of us. What really happens is that they make us all helpless against the worst drives in human nature.
Just as we need checks and balances against executive despotism, a wayward legislature, and a corrupt judiciary we also need checks and balances against the economic power of economic elites who think more like plantation owners than like small-scale entrepreneurs.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.