America is stuck. We’re tied down by partisan ideology. Our situation is not unlike Gulliver. We’ve become like the giant, fallen asleep and then awakened by mini-people dancing on our collective selves, making outrageous demands. The strings controlling Gulliver are not unlike the strings of tribal partisanship. While the pragmatic majority slumbers, America’s forward path […]
Read MoreDoctrinaire capitalism is coming to crisis via increasing disconnects between pursuit of self-interest and realization of the common good. Moral philosopher Adam Smith assumed no leakages out of productive capital, into nonproductive uses; assumed no short-term oriented schemes in which plow horses are turned into hobby horses, figuratively, with pseudo-capitalists taking the money, then running.
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