There are always interesting and paradoxical ironies to ideological stances, conservatives claim a free market will eventually mean utopia, but then they criticize liberals for claiming those same free individuals who run those markets are basically good people. Oddly it was liberals who started individual freedom as a primary constituent of a just society (still do).
So today according to conservatives, remove any constraint from the marketplace and great things will happen. Does anyone still believe that after the GD, Enron, Madoff, and the recent near collapse of the Banking industry? But conservatives hold tight to this ideological stance, corporations pay well to keep the idea wholesome. Give the corporations freedom and Disneyland follows. Sure. Maybe the outsourcing of conservatism isn't such a bad idea after all. After they are outsourced, they may, just may wake up. You think.
'In "The Quiet Revolution," John B. Judis argues that President Obamas greatest achievement may be rebuilding the regulatory apparatus that Republican presidents since Reagan have worked so hard to dismantle.'
"Yet there is one extremely consequential area where Obama has done just about everything a liberal could ask for--but done it so quietly that almost no one, including most liberals, has noticed. Obamas three Republican predecessors were all committed to weakening or even destroying the countrys regulatory apparatus: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the other agencies that are supposed to protect workers and consumers by regulating business practices. Now Obama is seeking to rebuild these battered institutions. In doing so, he isnt simply improving the effectiveness of various government offices or making scattered progress on a few issues; he is resuscitating an entire philosophy of government with roots in the Progressive era of the early twentieth century. Taken as a whole, Obamas revival of these agencies is arguably the most significant accomplishment of his first year in office."
The Quiet Revolution | The New Republic
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So today according to conservatives, remove any constraint from the marketplace and great things will happen. Does anyone still believe that after the GD, Enron, Madoff, and the recent near collapse of the Banking industry? But conservatives hold tight to this ideological stance, corporations pay well to keep the idea wholesome. Give the corporations freedom and Disneyland follows. Sure. Maybe the outsourcing of conservatism isn't such a bad idea after all. After they are outsourced, they may, just may wake up. You think.
'In "The Quiet Revolution," John B. Judis argues that President Obamas greatest achievement may be rebuilding the regulatory apparatus that Republican presidents since Reagan have worked so hard to dismantle.'
"Yet there is one extremely consequential area where Obama has done just about everything a liberal could ask for--but done it so quietly that almost no one, including most liberals, has noticed. Obamas three Republican predecessors were all committed to weakening or even destroying the countrys regulatory apparatus: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the other agencies that are supposed to protect workers and consumers by regulating business practices. Now Obama is seeking to rebuild these battered institutions. In doing so, he isnt simply improving the effectiveness of various government offices or making scattered progress on a few issues; he is resuscitating an entire philosophy of government with roots in the Progressive era of the early twentieth century. Taken as a whole, Obamas revival of these agencies is arguably the most significant accomplishment of his first year in office."
The Quiet Revolution | The New Republic
Essential Summer Reading, Domestic Politics | Politeia | Big Think