McCain’s championing of “getting the monied interests out of politics” and Obama’s pledge to eliminate their influence both amount to an attempt to eliminate economic interest groups (and, indeed, interest groups that are in any way allied with economic interests - such as independent free market groups) from politics. But, politics is about interest group influences. If economic interest groups are eliminated, only ideological groups are left - right and left groups driven by cultural, ethnic, environmental or other religious values. Is that world likely to prove more tolerant, more compassionate, more “concerned?”. . . A world where economic interests are disenfranchised - indeed, even de-legitimized - is a world that will have little regard for economic - and, thus, individual - liberty.
Ideologues have created far more horrors than have even the most rampant of business villains. My understanding is that Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung were not motivated by profit.
Yes. A government big enough and determined enough to have a centrally planned economy is also big and determined enough to want a centrally planned society -- and that means your life gets to be centrally planned by it and not you. Remember the toxic blots on human history known as Stalin, Mao, and their ilk?
*MM hugs her tattered ideals of free markets and limited government.*
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