McGentrix wrote:The first thing i would like to see would be a stable government that actually worked the way it was supposed to. That would entail Dems and Reps working together, a dramatic decrease in pork barrell spending, and the realization that they are working for US, not themselves. i would also see lobbying sharply reduced, if not outlawed totally, and special interest groups would have zero clout with the govt.
How's that for a start?
a start would be the 535 members of congress at the bottom of the ocean along with the leaders of the executive branch and all 4,000 licensed lobbyists in washington.
The bane, as you might agree, is of the enlargement of government and the concomitant power it has over society and the economy.
My friends on the Left ignore at their peril the fact that both the Civil War and the New Deal increased dramatically the influence and power of government to dictate values. They would applaud the use of government to cast out the demons of slavery, racism, segregation and the use of government to help the needy. But this is a double-edged sword because such a large artifice can be manipulated by powerful, actually, wealthy persons to line their own pockets.
Where liberals/progressives are out where the buses don't run is that they seem blind to the fact that the very artifice that they revel in to promote human(e) rights, viz., the government, as a means for social progress can be mutated to be an instrument for the furthering of economic inequality by the power of crony capitalism and the military-industrial complex.
Liberals/progressives got what they wanted, the utilization of the moral force of representative democracy to promote their causes, but they have unleashed the beast, because this apparatus is best employed as a tool for the powerful, not the weak.
As the old proverb warns, be care of what you wish for.
c.i.
