Harry Reid and Durbin are now attempting to cast the Cruz and the entire Tea Party as anarchists. Their core understandings are terribly flawed. "The distinction between left and right is wrongly described by modern commentators as a distinction between the state and the market. As I earlier suggested, it is in part a distinction between two human types, the one seeing politics as the collective pursuit of an egalitarian goal, the other seeing it as a free association between individuals, in which absent generations and present hierarchies have a place. Hence the two forms of membership: movements with causes, and civil associations that are ends in themselves. My claim is that the first of those is the threat to homeostasis, the second a form of it. If we see questions from the second perspective, then the emphasis shifts from control to incentive. We solve problems not by appointing someone to take charge of them, but by creating the incentives that will lead people to solve them for themselves. The problem with centralized control is not merely that it reduces or extinguishes accountability, but also that it creates incentives that militate against its own success. . . government has a part to play, but its proper role is not to take charge of the problem, but to create the framework and the constraints that enable people to take charge of it themselves. When the state imposes central control it becomes immediately exposed to lobbying from rival interest groups and single-issue fanatics, and will favour the group that makes the most noise, stirs up the most trouble or gives the most money to the ruling clique. The more distant the legislature from the people the greater will be the distortion." ~Scruton
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:23:36 +0000