This will be my last entry on neoconservatism, my next entries will be on business corporations. I still plan to focus more on economic data in the Statistical Abstracts and NIPA tables this year, but that requires a bit of “start up” time that I do not have right now.
Neoconservatives complain about the immoral relativism [...]
I was premature in starting this sequence with the cowardice of neoconservatism. Understanding the vanity of thinking beliefs infallible and the cynicism of having the ends justify the means in order to spread them prepares us better to understand why cowardice is involved as well.
To spread democratic ends through undemocratic means, such as invasion, betrays [...]
Continue reading about The Cowardice of Neoconservatism Revisited
If you have been following along with The Middle Class Forum you know I believe that a federated democracy abstracts wisdom better than a party democracy. A federated democracy produced the wisdom that crafted our Constitution. Unfortunately, a party democracy was formed not long after.
Let us pretend there is a stronger and wealthier country in [...]
The problem with doing a fast turnaround on a blog is I don’t always think everything through enough. Had I more time to reflect I would have started with “The Vanity” rather than “The Cowardice” of neoconservatism. In fact, the first criticism that should come to mind for someone reading my previous entry would be [...]
In the previous entry I made a claim that an empiricist would, by now, want to test a theory that reduced intervention in the Middle East would lead to greater stability, based on the evidence of what the Middle East was like before western intervention escalated during World War I. The main proponents of continued [...]
Many problems to our economic system will not be fixed unless we also fix problems with our political system. A common refrain you hear among special interest groups, particularly the ones who are opposed to whatever party controls Congress, is we must vote all the bums out. To an extent I agree with this sentiment, [...]
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We are a nation governed by laws. There are many smart folks serving as lawyers that make sure of that. Any societal trend or established phenomenon ultimately is allowed by law, if not outright encouraged or required. There are deregulation laws responsible for the media consolidation that has occurred since the seventies. This has centralized [...]
Up until now, I have covered system characteristics that amount to effects of an economic system out of balance. We are in the midst of a financial crisis that makes our problems seem sudden and acute, but there has been a continuous degradation of stability, adaptability and diversity since the seventies. These long term trends [...]
OK. So Democrats are conservative on some issues and Republicans are liberals. What’s the big deal, especially if I don’t go in much for ideologies in the first place? In the overall scheme of things one party must be a better friend to the middle class. Why not endorse that party for now and just [...]
