Another in the ongoing series in which I prove that Democrat voters will support clearly proven failed policies.
One normally thinks of politics, and things like freedom and liberty, when one discusses whether government should be based on conservative principles or those of Progressives. The path government follows should lead either to prosperity or to dependency. Does the intelligent voter vote for prosperity or for dependency?
1. “America has been, from the first, primarily a market society powered by incentives for individual striving. This distinctively American frame of mind emerged early. In 1623 there was an episode that illustrated the toll that reality takes on ideology. It also illustrated the fecundity of individualism and enlightened self interest. [It was] ‘Of Plymouth Plantation, the journal of William Bradford, the colony’s governor for nearly thirty-six years. In a section on private versus communal farming, Bradford wrote that in 1623, because of a corn shortage, the colonists ‘began to think how they might raise’ more of it.”
George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p. 222-223
2. Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony performed a controlled experiment to test collectivism against capitalism.
At first, property was communal….and the colony almost starved.
So, he instituted privatization.
“And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, or that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.”
Quoted from William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 120.
3. Success in society is based on allowing each to work for his own benefit, and to keep the fruits of his labor. This is the free market. This is capitalism. It is the rejection of collectivism, and leads to the ascent to individualism.
“In the free market, every man, woman and child is scheming to find a better way to make a product or service that will make a fortune!"
David Mamet
If government would stick to the functions the Founders and conservatives recognize as efficacious, prosperity must follow.….The premise of the Founders was that liberty pre-exists governments, and said governments are legitimate only when ‘instituted’ to ‘secure’ natural rights…..
…. prosperity abounds.
So….voting for the failed collectivist policies of the Democrats marks one, clearly, as a harebrain, and this should be monogrammed on all of their outer garments so new acquaintances are informed as to who they are dealing with, from the start.
It seems only fair.
One normally thinks of politics, and things like freedom and liberty, when one discusses whether government should be based on conservative principles or those of Progressives. The path government follows should lead either to prosperity or to dependency. Does the intelligent voter vote for prosperity or for dependency?
1. “America has been, from the first, primarily a market society powered by incentives for individual striving. This distinctively American frame of mind emerged early. In 1623 there was an episode that illustrated the toll that reality takes on ideology. It also illustrated the fecundity of individualism and enlightened self interest. [It was] ‘Of Plymouth Plantation, the journal of William Bradford, the colony’s governor for nearly thirty-six years. In a section on private versus communal farming, Bradford wrote that in 1623, because of a corn shortage, the colonists ‘began to think how they might raise’ more of it.”
George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p. 222-223
2. Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony performed a controlled experiment to test collectivism against capitalism.
At first, property was communal….and the colony almost starved.
So, he instituted privatization.
“And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, or that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.”
Quoted from William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 120.
3. Success in society is based on allowing each to work for his own benefit, and to keep the fruits of his labor. This is the free market. This is capitalism. It is the rejection of collectivism, and leads to the ascent to individualism.
“In the free market, every man, woman and child is scheming to find a better way to make a product or service that will make a fortune!"
David Mamet
If government would stick to the functions the Founders and conservatives recognize as efficacious, prosperity must follow.….The premise of the Founders was that liberty pre-exists governments, and said governments are legitimate only when ‘instituted’ to ‘secure’ natural rights…..
…. prosperity abounds.
So….voting for the failed collectivist policies of the Democrats marks one, clearly, as a harebrain, and this should be monogrammed on all of their outer garments so new acquaintances are informed as to who they are dealing with, from the start.
It seems only fair.
