What We Want from the State
What we see at left is a a perfect example of a “straw man” argument, i.e., one that deliberately twists one side of the debate. If you were asked to guess as to the percentage of Americans who want to give up free enterprise and hand over the “means of production” to the government, I’d say it could be 1/100th of a percent.
Practically nobody wants “everything from the state.” What most of us want, in addition to the many dozens of other things is that the U.S. federal, state, and local governments provide us with Medicare for all and subsided education, which is the form of government in the countries that consistently come in at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
I met a woman from Chicago yesterday who is concerned that the nation’s third-largest city is experiencing increasing frequent and severe tornadoes, causing deaths and inflicting huge amounts of property damage.
The following is simply raw speculation on my part. I’ll be interested in your comments.
Religion tends to make statements that fly in the teeth of science, but even the most ardent believers in God may have trouble with the meme here.
One good thing about having Trump in the White House is that he doesn’t have enough sense to hide what a terrible person he is.
Until I was about 40, what Milton Friedman said at left made perfect sense to me.
It’s possible that Americans are so angry that the Trump administration has ruined their country and its democracy that paid advertising for Republican candidates is having no effect on them.
Obviously, the endorsement of a much-despised president didn’t help, but what chance did this election-denying moron actually have in a sophisticated state like Minnesota?
I would be shocked to learn that more than a tiny fraction of 1% of American voters consider themselves Marxists.
Glenn Close is what Donald Trump would call a “woke celebrity.” Yet what he’s deliberately ignoring is that he has virtually zero support from the entertainment industry.
