Here is the third question posed to me by the editor of the business magazine Investor.ge, put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia.
(3) Why is it (the middle class) important? Can we say it is more important economically than socially or does it play an important role in both spheres? What is [...]
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In the last entry I described the Supreme Court as being the most paternal branch of government, with jurisprudence affected by entrenched relationships to wealth and power elites. Yet even if we were to minimize the paternal impact of the Supreme Court we still have a government that has trended steadily towards paternalism since its [...]
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The one place where you most expect wisdom from government is where authoritarianism has its greatest stranglehold. Supreme Court Justices are nominated for life through party politics. They overwhelmingly represent wealth and power elites, with corporate lawyers in the lead. They establish jurisprudence through arbitrary justifications couched in obtuse legal dogma. Restoring political balance will [...]
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Our political system at the federal and state levels features elected officials that are politicians rather than public servants. As politicians their job is to figure out what is best for us, as caring paternal agents, and then practice the politics of implementing the decisions they make. That is the best case scenario. As we [...]
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Restoring economic balance will require greater experimentation, as reported in the previous entry for this series, and better information. Most people equate misinformation as being distortions of information. Others maintain that as long as the information is out there somewhere in some format then “Buyer Beware.” Yet hidden or obscured information is essentially misinformation, afflicting [...]
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In the book Systems out of Balance my focus was illuminating how social systems work in ways we should not want. This alone was a movement towards restoring balance, since the first step in addressing a problem is recognizing you have one. The book includes a final essay titled “Restoring Balance” that provides some follow-up [...]
I have formed a band called The Bards of Balance. In the past two weeks we released our album, Restoring Balance, for digital download. I know it’s available at CD Baby already and should be available at all audio distribution venues such as iTunes soon.
We also did our first college gig at the Torrington Branch [...]
Mark Levin slips up a bit with his inclusion of the slavery issue in his chapter “On Federalism.” Up until this chapter the reader of Liberty and Tyranny is to believe that the New Deal is when the Supreme Court went astray with their judicial activism, but Levin cites two heavy-handed Supreme Court decisions that [...]
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The chapter “On Federalism” from Mark Levin’s book Liberty and Tyranny has a lot of good information in it. The focus of this deconstruction may be on misinformation, but to omit the context of the good information would be misinformation in itself.
Levin echoes the sentiments of James Madison that the Constitution was meant for a [...]
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Property is neither a natural right, as John Locke claimed, nor a fence to liberty, as claimed by James Madison. The natural right claim is easily dismissed. If you live in Connecticut you do not own property in California unless there is some type of government to back up your claim. “Squatter’s rights” or “use [...]
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