Do We Tolerate Or ELIMINATE "Weeds", In Our "Garden Of Democracy"?

[Mr. Shaman]

....Those "weeds" (of course) being $uper-capitali$t$/"conservatives"/Tea Party.​

Review - The Gardens of Democracy - David Frum

"Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer want to change the way Americans think about politics, and they want to do this with a new metaphor to describe how governance should work. This is the premise behind their new book, The Gardens of Democracy: that Americans politics can be greatly improved if we can agree that the country is like a garden.

Real gardens need to be tended to and cared for, but they are also alive and must be left alone to actually grow. Liu and Hanauer see a similar way to govern America: tend to the big objectives (for example, creating a green energy industry) and make sure the garden has no weeds, but don't try to micromanage each individual.

Liu and Hanauer write their book from the left-hand side of politics but are the arguments in this book applicable to both sides of the spectrum? Or will the right find this view completely objectionable? While the book makes its argument from a strong liberal and progressive background, this does not mean conservatives and the center-right have no claim to these ideas.

The metaphor that America is like a garden is not a gimmick, but powerful refutation of neoclassical economics. If you think that human beings are atomized individuals who only make rational decisions in a marketplace with the goal of maximizing their utility, Liu and Hanauer will not only disagree, they will argue that science has proven that view to be wrong.

Liu and Hanauer have proposed a powerful new way to think about how society works and there is a lot here for conservatives to work with and debate. It will be to the detriment of the American right's ability to govern if rigid ideology means it can't even engage with these ideas."

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7v7bxWUixQ]Charlie Rose Part 1: authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer talk about their new book. - YouTube[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akEPeATCy58]Charlie Rose Part 2: Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer talk about their new book. - YouTube[/ame]
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xKGgv_Fjg0]Charlie Rose Part 3: Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer about their new book. - YouTube[/ame]​

 

[peach174]

The weeds are the liberals in this country who are against our Constitution and are for way too much European style entitlements and big overblown Federal Government.

 

[occupied]

I don't believe I like the analogy, not at all. A garden is not a peaceful place, it is a constant battleground with pests.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We need to relocate the Progressives

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I don't believe I like the analogy, not at all. A garden is not a peaceful place, it is a constant battleground with pests.

Agreed.....$uper-capitali$t$, "conservatives", The Tea Party.....and, other such greedy/$elf-centered prick$.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

We need to relocate the Progressives

Please.

You NEED us.....to save-your-ass......

....one-MORE-time!!!!!

​

 

[AmericanFirst]

We need to relocate the Progressives

Please.

You NEED us.....to save-your-ass......

....one-MORE-time!!!!!

​

No we don't, it is you progressives that have been the problem with this country. Capitalism is a hell of a lot better than socialism. If you love socialism so much, get out of my country.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The weeds are the liberals in this country who are against our Constitution and are for way too much European style entitlements and big overblown Federal Government.

Gee.....you couldn't come-up with some kind o' oldy/moldy, worn-out "conservative"-rhetoric.....posed, as an opinion.....instead?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

We need to relocate the Progressives

Please.

You NEED us.....to save-your-ass......

....one-MORE-time!!!!!

​

No we don't, it is you progressives that have been the problem.....

....While you "conservatives" thought it was a pretty-good-idea to put.....

.....ANOTHER Bush in the Oval Office.

Great thinkin', there!

 

[Avatar4321]

First, we dont have a democracy. We have a Republic.

Second, weeds dont have to be tolerated. The truth kills them. We just need to speak and live the Truth.

 

[Not2BSubjugated]

This looks like another hack piece to me. Some more, "In order for our country to flourish we need to do away with opinions that are contrary to my own" mentality.

When statements like this come from left -or- right they always have one thing in common: The acrid stench of self-assured partisan elitism. Stop parading philosophical intolerance around as some form of peaceful enlightenment.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

First, we dont have a democracy. We have a Republic.

Second, weeds dont have to be tolerated. The truth kills them. We just need to speak and live the Truth.

Everyone's well-aware o' your.....

....Truths.

Keep 'em.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

This looks like another hack piece to me. Some more, "In order for our country to flourish we need to do away with opinions that are contrary to my own" mentality.

wow.....how specific.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

The Pit Bull that dares to attack his master has his genetic information ruthlessly culled out of the gene pool.

 

[Avatar4321]

First, we dont have a democracy. We have a Republic.

Second, weeds dont have to be tolerated. The truth kills them. We just need to speak and live the Truth.

Everyone's well-aware o' your.....

....Truths.

Keep 'em.​

The truth doesnt belong to any one person. It just is. We find happiness in life by complying with it and making ourselves free.

We ignore it at our own peril and misery

 

[bripat9643]

Do We Tolerate Or ELIMINATE "Weeds", In Our "Garden Of Democracy"?

I've never seen such an obvious example of fascism in my life.

Only a bootlicking thug would find anything to admire in this man's ideas.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

First, we dont have a democracy. We have a Republic.

Second, weeds dont have to be tolerated. The truth kills them. We just need to speak and live the Truth.

Everyone's well-aware o' your.....

....Truths.

Keep 'em.​

The truth doesnt belong to any one person. It just is. We find happiness in life by complying with it.....

Ah, yes complying.....much like deferring (to the Patriarchy).....​

Leviticus 27:3,4 (King James Version):​

3. And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

4. And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.

.....how well that's worked, for Women.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Do We Tolerate Or ELIMINATE "Weeds", In Our "Garden Of Democracy"?

I've never seen such an obvious example of fascism in my life.

Only a bootlicking thug would find anything to admire in this man's ideas.

"....a bootlicking thug....."????

Gee.....how artfully you contruct oxymorons.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madU172f6zI]Millionaire Nick Hanauer and Fox News Neil Cavuto - YouTube[/ame]

Those FAUX Noise interviewers surely-do seem to forget who the (actual) guests are!!

 

[francoHFW]

Greedy, thieving, lying Mega rich Pub are bad citizens of the country and the world. So are the dupes - ignorant loudmouth (and quiet) xenophobe, arrogant, brainwashed Ugly 'Merican tools of Pubs- careless twits.