“Limited government” was definitely a really good idea that became functionally obsolete long before anyone alive today was born.
This is one of my chief beefs with libertarianism. It’s all well and good when it’s a bunch of isolated cabins and nearly unlimited land and self-sufficient people like when JS Mill was writing.
Nowadays, well, not so much.
Nowadays, well, not so much.
“I want a government so small I can drown it in a bathtub!” made sense maybe before the New Deal, the modern social safety net, the internet, and Twitter.
I’m not saying this is how it ought to be. I’m saying this is how it is and, henceforth, always will be.
Conservatives can adapt to a changing world or die the death of a political philosophy adept only at navigating a world that has existed for a long time.
Conservatives can adapt to a changing world or die the death of a political philosophy adept only at navigating a world that has existed for a long time.
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