Friday, September 21, 2012
Gerson for President!
I think he gets it:
[A] Republican ideology pitting the “makers” against the “takers” offers nothing. No sympathy for our fellow citizens. No insight into our social challenge. No hope of change. This approach involves a relentless reductionism. Human worth is reduced to economic production. Social problems are reduced to personal vices. Politics is reduced to class warfare on behalf of the upper class.
A few libertarians have wanted this fight ever since they read “Atlas Shrugged” as pimply adolescents. Given Romney’s background, record and faith, I don’t believe that he holds this view. I do believe that Republicans often parrot it, because they lack familiarity with other forms of conservatism that include a conception of the common good.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/09/-gerson-for-president.html
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"Restoring a semblance of equal opportunity...will take tremendous effort and creative policy. Yet a Republican ideology pitting the “makers” against the “takers” offers nothing."
Indeed, it's hard for me to think of any ideas in the current GOP geared towards restoring a semblance of equal opportunity.