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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (845619)3/28/2015 7:36:08 PM
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The Tea Party has really screwed the Republicans in the last few years

Tea Party motivation generally comes from familiarity with a vast body of literature that our ruling class has almost excluded from public dialog. They are inheritors of attitudes about the proper relationship between government and individuals that budded with the Magna Carta and flowered with our Declaration and Constitution. Government was seen as a regrettably necessary overhead expense needing tight limits and constraints – and most certainly not as a positive good.

The principles embodied once made America the greatest nation that ever existed. The reasoning involved has been under attack for a long, long while and is now almost forgotten here.

It's a sad irony that the locus of libertarian economic thought has shifted. The brightest examples are now in the Orient. The young in Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore enjoy a happy trajectory. The light shining from those examples have even led the thugs ruling the Chinese to partially emulate principles that have been proving their worth for centuries. Meanwhile, opportunity here diminishes.

Something precious has been highjacked. People long marinated in the drivel emanating from our dominant institutions are ill equipped to recognize trends most unpleasant. Even worse, few recognize the desirability of scrutinizing their embedded assumptions.

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