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Re: Comparing Trump to Churchill

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 21 Aug 16 10:45 PM | 45 view(s)
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For me, the long run sustainable political variable is the rate of change.

How much innovation is useful? How cautious should a government be about changing what it does?

There's no viable principle which says "expanding the government is always a good idea, nor is there a viable principle which says "reducing government is always beneficial".

Similarly, you can't say the market is always right, or that more regulation will always make markets more efficient.

You can't say government spending always crowds out innovation and private investment, or that government spending is universally benevolent.

These kinds of ideas all work in some circumstances and not in others.

So any sensible political philosophy recognises the need for circumstantial flexibility. What do circumstances demand? A swift pace of change or stability?


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Re: Comparing Trump to Churchill
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 21 Aug 16 6:09 PM 		Msg. 19493 of 54959

Personally, I hope there is an opposition to the Democrats, but not this opposition.

I think of the current Dems as a respectable right of centre party. It believes in a mixed economy. But it is fairly content not to change the status quo so much. Gradual change. It's the old sort of conservative model.

But there's also a viable left-of-centre view that might make a decent opponent for Clinton. One that uses government money for large-scale projects (like the space exploration of old) and that is willing to lean towards more government in areas like education, infrastructure building etc. One that wants to remove guns and clean up money in politics. Bernie's positions, but with a second amendment change as well. So a view of government that is progressive.

Sometimes one view might seem sensible. And sometimes the other. But there would be a decent choice.

Right now, the choice is between the Dems, the wingnut Republicans and the Trump dictatorship. Which has allowed the Dems to bestride both sides of the middle.

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