It becomes very clear.
The Republicans believe in spontaneous order resulting from the random outputs of chaos.
The Democrats believe in adding a layer of economic management to the chaos.
Both arguments have strengths and limitations.
We know that excessive rule-making dulls entrepreneurship and that innovation occurs both where the government creates new ecosystems and where entrepreneurs summon property out of chaos. On the other hand, insufficient rule-making permits abuse and often causes harms. Witness the last decade.
We know such things as negative externalities emerge from functioning economies. We also know that we cannot exhale without creating a butterfly effect and we must be allowed to breathe.
We know government can be slow and insensitive. On the other hand, we wouldn't have laws, property, roads or sewers without them.
When we see an excess in either direction, it is easy to presume the opposite extreme is the locus of wisdom. But the temperate zone lies between poles and not at them.
The hardest task is to explain the choices and the rich variety of the middle. Society and individualism. Regulation and freedom. Economic growth and compassion. Free speech and abridgement. Property and Nature. Trump Plaza and Yosemite.
And, not or. The choices aren't binary. They are multitudinous. We blend.
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