tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post2020419115612265260..comments2023-12-19T19:28:28.619-08:00Comments on Wealth is not the Problem: Socialism is DemocracyHaynesBEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11263223513305886233noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post-59671764617407992452009-08-12T22:20:33.049-07:002009-08-12T22:20:33.049-07:00Doug Reich, I read some of your blog. I would be ...Doug Reich, I read some of your blog. I would be interested to know what you think of bus loads of non-constituents traveling from town hall meeting to town hall meeting with the objective of disrupting debate on serious issues. Is that an example of honest grass roots opposition, or does it sound more orchestrated than private citizens expressing themselves through meetings with their representatives? And don't look now, but it isn't the left who are showing up with guns.<br /><br />anonymous1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post-90304647188945441942009-08-12T22:00:15.532-07:002009-08-12T22:00:15.532-07:00don't look now, but plutocracy fits our system...don't look now, but plutocracy fits our system very well. Read this week's Business Week and you'll find that the insurance industry's lobbying efforts are positioning it for a windfall when health care reform is passed. <br /><br />Given the number of people who control the political/lobby power in this country, oligarchy might also be a word you want to add to your lexicon.<br /><br />-anonymous1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post-66512573878831522492009-07-31T16:34:37.938-07:002009-07-31T16:34:37.938-07:00Let the Venezuelans get their's. They want soc...Let the Venezuelans get their's. They want socialism, let them have. I hope they enjoy it as their government becomes less and less able to engage in rational economic calculation when more productive factors are forcibly removed from the market. Eventually they'll have to do what the Soviets did and use old copies of the Wall Street Journal to set factor prices. Schmucks.Michael Labeithttp://coroners-bureau.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post-34268436918118877482009-07-31T10:28:34.049-07:002009-07-31T10:28:34.049-07:00Nice. Love that word.Nice. Love that word.The Rat Caphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641716225847901280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post-23201616379465651112009-07-31T10:24:07.997-07:002009-07-31T10:24:07.997-07:00Thank you for your additional comments.
Here'...Thank you for your additional comments.<br /><br />Here's a fun word to know:<br /><br />ochlocracy<br /><br />–noun<br />government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.<br /><br />Origin:<br />1475–85; < Gk ochlokratía, equiv. to óchl(os) mob + -o- -o- + -kratia -cracy<br /><br />Related forms:<br />och⋅lo⋅crat /ˈɒkləˌkræt/<br />[ok-luh-krat], noun<br />och⋅lo⋅crat⋅ic, och⋅lo⋅crat⋅i⋅cal, adjective<br />och⋅lo⋅crat⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb<br /><br /><br />Now you don't have to use "mobocracy" in scare quotes.HaynesBEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263223513305886233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8774848724259616420.post-20108715605142810582009-07-31T07:50:08.603-07:002009-07-31T07:50:08.603-07:00Great post. Thanks.
It always amazes me how much...Great post. Thanks.<br /><br />It always amazes me how much better the Left grasps the true nature of their evil philosophy than does the Right. <br /><br />This fact is really the essence of the problem. In other words, not only does the mainstream Right not understand the essential philosophical premises of the Left, they mostly embrace them (e.g., see "compassionate conservativism"). Consequently, most on the Right are led to embrace only pragmatic arguments for freedom rather than adopting a more fundamental moral stance. <br /><br />The conflation of "democracy" with "capitalism" or "freedom" is one of the biggest fallacies out there - one committed by the Right as well as the Left. The Founding Fathers considered "democracy" to be a dirty word as they properly understood it as "mobocracy" and realized that majority rule was not consistent with inalienable rights (rights that can not be violated by majority vote!). It appears that we have completely lost this important distinction. <br /><br />Thanks for so concisely explaining this issue.The Rat Caphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641716225847901280noreply@blogger.com