On Nov 4, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > > On Nov 4, 2013, at 6:44 PM, martin schiller wrote: > >> >> On Nov 4, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Shane Mage wrote: >> >>> Since a majority of the people strongly desire "a" Third Party, why not >>> offer a populist choice with carbon tax--simple, easy to understand, easily >>> defensible--as the centerpiece of its economic program? >> >> Why not include ALL of the national resources in your program? Why base an >> economic program on carbon, which you want to sequester? > > Theoretical: atmospheric CO2/methane threatens the continuation of > civilization, perhaps even of the human race itself. > Practical: to win a majority a party must have a uniting program that is > simple, comprehensible, effective. Start talking about "all resources" and > you will be written of as utopian or (and not unjustly) as incipiently > totalitarian.
People seem fairly united around the reality of a corporate-person democracy, and describing the government as 'the peoples corporation', set with the task of managing 'the peoples resources', sounds like a heartening narrative to me. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
