“ If public dissatisfaction with what is happening to the country reaches a critical mass and the Left sees an upturn in political fortunes in sight, it will happily conflate actual conservative principles and policies with the foul behavior cited above.”
Exactly.
“ I understand that the reason the US government’s debt and deficit are on an unsustainable course is that a century ago, the decidedly anti-Madisonian notion that government ought to concern itself with the two big givens of the human condition - sickness and old age - came to have a lot of appeal among the populace.”
Do you think (as I do) that this was entirely a mistake and that the government should get out of both?
“ If public dissatisfaction with what is happening to the country reaches a critical mass and the Left sees an upturn in political fortunes in sight, it will happily conflate actual conservative principles and policies with the foul behavior cited above.”
Exactly.
“ I understand that the reason the US government’s debt and deficit are on an unsustainable course is that a century ago, the decidedly anti-Madisonian notion that government ought to concern itself with the two big givens of the human condition - sickness and old age - came to have a lot of appeal among the populace.”
Do you think (as I do) that this was entirely a mistake and that the government should get out of both?
I do, but whenever we muster the courage to rip the Band Aid off, it's going to be very unpopular.
I’m with you all the way