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Well, I am reading excerpts from Sowell's article,
and there are the usual statements like Mr. Williams says that "if there is anything good to be said about the Democratic White House and the [previous] Congress and their brazen attempt to take over the economy and control our lives, it's that the tea party movement has come out of it. But we have gone so far from the basic constitutional principles that made us a great country that it's a question of whether we can get back."
I keep hearing statements like these, but I just don't know what they mean: brazen attempt to take over the economy? Control our lives? We have gone away from basic constitutional principles? These are apparent axioms, assumed but ( in my experience) never explained. It just takes too much time to try to figure out what statements of this sort mean. Maybe the problem is the two sides have stopped talking to each other so neither side is up to par on what the other is thinking. Just like trying to understand what your friend is up to 20 years since you last saw him, never communicating with him/her interim.
Then "We need a constitutional amendment that limits the amount of money the government can spend". Why? IMHO, government is just one institution in a system of checks and balances. There is the market, the church, the family, the military, etc. These are supposed to keep each other in line, preventing anyone institution from gaining too much power. Why do I hear the constant demonizing of the government alone when I read something from the right? And these far out (false) statements about the government never doing barely anything at all right ( winning WW2, sending a man to the moon ,the civil rights movement, laying the groundwork for the internet )
Or: Still, he's concerned about " how far the country has strayed from the type of limited government envisioned by the Founding Fathers" . Not all founding fathers agreed on this perspective.
Ad then there is he fact that Sowell never replied to comments disagreeing with him.
There are just too many assumptions I don't share that are never explained.
and there are the usual statements like Mr. Williams says that "if there is anything good to be said about the Democratic White House and the [previous] Congress and their brazen attempt to take over the economy and control our lives, it's that the tea party movement has come out of it. But we have gone so far from the basic constitutional principles that made us a great country that it's a question of whether we can get back."
I keep hearing statements like these, but I just don't know what they mean: brazen attempt to take over the economy? Control our lives? We have gone away from basic constitutional principles? These are apparent axioms, assumed but ( in my experience) never explained. It just takes too much time to try to figure out what statements of this sort mean. Maybe the problem is the two sides have stopped talking to each other so neither side is up to par on what the other is thinking. Just like trying to understand what your friend is up to 20 years since you last saw him, never communicating with him/her interim.
Then "We need a constitutional amendment that limits the amount of money the government can spend". Why? IMHO, government is just one institution in a system of checks and balances. There is the market, the church, the family, the military, etc. These are supposed to keep each other in line, preventing anyone institution from gaining too much power. Why do I hear the constant demonizing of the government alone when I read something from the right? And these far out (false) statements about the government never doing barely anything at all right ( winning WW2, sending a man to the moon ,the civil rights movement, laying the groundwork for the internet )
Or: Still, he's concerned about " how far the country has strayed from the type of limited government envisioned by the Founding Fathers" . Not all founding fathers agreed on this perspective.
Ad then there is he fact that Sowell never replied to comments disagreeing with him.
There are just too many assumptions I don't share that are never explained.