1. The premise here is that most modern governance structures are iterations and permutations of the same view of the world....i.e., that there is some version of government control that is necessary and proper to coordinate and control the lives of individuals.
Without government dictates,.....individuals would be lost, hopeless, and unable to survive.
It boils down to this calculation:
Good intentions plus coercion equals the solution.
2. The Founders memorialized a nation based on individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
In the modern world, politics has morphed into what is largely Germanic thought.....Hegel, Nietzsche, Karl Marx....finding new ways to impose tyrannical rule.
a. The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).
b. And it appears in it's American form, in the attitude of the FDR supporters, as observed in the words ofA.B. “Happy” Chandler, a former Kentucky governor:
"“[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.
Folsom and Folsom, "FDR Goes To War."
3. Which of the modern totalitarian governance schemes....Communism, Nazism, Progressivism, Socialism, Fascism, or Liberalism.....stands with the view of our Founders, individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government?
Right...none of the shameful six:
Communism, Nazism, Progressivism, Socialism, Fascism, or Liberalism.
Without government dictates,.....individuals would be lost, hopeless, and unable to survive.
It boils down to this calculation:
Good intentions plus coercion equals the solution.
2. The Founders memorialized a nation based on individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
In the modern world, politics has morphed into what is largely Germanic thought.....Hegel, Nietzsche, Karl Marx....finding new ways to impose tyrannical rule.
a. The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).
b. And it appears in it's American form, in the attitude of the FDR supporters, as observed in the words ofA.B. “Happy” Chandler, a former Kentucky governor:
"“[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.
Folsom and Folsom, "FDR Goes To War."
3. Which of the modern totalitarian governance schemes....Communism, Nazism, Progressivism, Socialism, Fascism, or Liberalism.....stands with the view of our Founders, individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government?
Right...none of the shameful six:
Communism, Nazism, Progressivism, Socialism, Fascism, or Liberalism.