02-03-2021, 12:28 PM
(02-03-2021, 12:09 PM)Einzige Wrote:(02-03-2021, 12:06 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-03-2021, 11:44 AM)Einzige Wrote:(02-03-2021, 11:36 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-03-2021, 08:33 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN seems to have echoed an idea of a three way struggle among the remnants of the Republican Party. There are three contenders: Trump followers, the establishment and the true conservatives. They mention the true conservatives as the long term best choice, but likely to end the long dominance of the conservatives in the short term.
I never thought I would cheer the Patriots, but Trump's Patriots may be just the ticket to clear away some dead wood in our democracy. If they split the GOP, make the remnants unelectable and the Dems get a supermajority, they should move decisively and quickly to enact as many changes as possible. I doubt it will last long enough to change the Constitution, but maybe ...
This was, basically, the logic of Weimar liberals with respect to the NSDAP: "If they steal votes from the DNVP, so much the better."
There is never a guarantee of success, but playing a losing game by the same rules decade after decade is Einstein's definition of insanity. We need to try something new. The old model is broken.
A Keynesian welfare capitalism is still part of the old model.
Keynes is vastly more modern than Marx, who had an industrial focus. There is a diversity in today's economy that vastly exceeds anything either man contemplated, but Keynes never worried about 'the means of production', so his model seems more suited to today. Ownership can remain in private hands if it is distributed widely and fairly, and opposed by a public sphere that keeps it in check. Integrating all that under one umbrella guarantees tyranny (e.g. the Soviet or Maoist models) or chaos and bedlam (if the state 'withers away'). Let ownership devolve to a sovereign wealth fund, created by taxing corporations through stock rather than money. Small mom-and-pop operations would be more hobby than business, why bother with them?
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.