(September 19, 2013 at 10:13 am)5thHorseman Wrote: becoming less of a lefty than i was, more inclined, these days anyway, towards old school liberalism, but i do believe in state healthcare and education.......but not a lot else.......also like Hayek's ideas of creating competition. In other words, breaking up monopolies.
I'm quite a mix.
THANK YOU!
China's political monopoly is the same as Iran's religious monopoly is the same as the 1%'s monopoly. ANYTHING left to it's own devices can become abusive and all those human run entities require the same thing to gain the monopoly of power. MONEY.
Break up the monopolies. A very Jeffersonian anti trust idea, and exactly what the First Amendment amounts to, an anti-trust law.
On paper "less government" sounds nice, but the conditions for that to happen are simply not there right now. If we had a government like we did after WW2 and an anti trust President like Teddy Roosevelt, I think we could really fix things.
But right now we are owned by corporate welfare precisely because of the influence of big money on politics.
