MRB said:
Centralized government systems only work for defense and justice-administration
- at best. This is because government is inertial.
Mark said:
Yes, and the smallest government possible to administer these things. This is
because of the expense of government.
dmb says:
I'll bet a hundred bucks that neither one of you bothered to read the article.
If you had, you'd realize how un-pragmatic you're being.
"Still, while James did want us to believe, he also wanted us to give up
“ideologies.” He called pragmatism “[t]he attitude of looking away from first
things, principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of looking towards
last things, fruits, consequences, facts.” Pragmatists can have principles but
not self-verifying ones; they renounce any certainties that are based on claims
of universal necessity. In our world of chance and change, things may not go
the way we want either intellectually or practically, so we have to look to the
developing world of actions and results for support of, and challenges to, our
most cherished faiths. The final test of even our logic is how well it leads us
to act and live. Pragmatists therefore think, and act, provisionally, or
subject to later changes in course."
"In 2006, Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois wrote in his memoir “The
Audacity of Hope”, that the Constitution, rather than being a dead document
based on settled principles, is “designed to force us into a conversation” and
offers “a way by which we argue about our future.” And he criticized his own
Democratic party for failing to bring new ideas to this argument, having become
“the party of reaction”: “In reaction to a war that is ill-conceived, we appear
suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market
can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle
pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with
secularism and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies
with a larger meaning.” Obama challenged both parties to leave behind their
ideological boilerplate and develop something new, something that all Americans
can come to believe in."
And how do you guys respond? In knee-jerk fashion with the same old ideological
boilerplate we've all heard a thousand times, that's how.
Sigh.
Troll, troll, troll away...
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