So David, given these views, if it's a choice between Trump and Sanders, who will you support?
He’ll choose Sanders.
I disagree.
.....It was because they were bad AND stupid. .......................
Brooks “I was once a socialist, now I just vote for and kiss their asses and hope they have me on their tv shows”.
What a SOS this guy is.
Say what!? Who are you and what have you done with David Brooks?
“I, Pencil.” This kills the Socialists.
Whodat?
“Capitalism creates a relentless learning system. Socialism doesn’t.”
Bingo.
Our imperfect system is for that single reason the best, by far, and the one that should be recognized as having the ability to lift society to its highest potential.
He was once a socialist, now he just votes for them.
I’m ignoring the fact that this is David Brooks.
But with that....this is in my journey the Big Point that I got from Hayek that I had not gotten from other anti-socialist thinkers.
It’s an epistemological problem. There’s no way to handle all the info required for civilization....except through a market system with free exchanges/transactions, prices that adjust, transparency in costs.
Where does he stand on health care?
I thought this was perhaps a different David Brooks, but alas it’s not. So this is really nothing but a farce perpetrated by a liar. The only capitalism he may believe in is crony capitalism, just like all other Democrats.
America has massive socialist spending, mainly to buy votes, but we’re pretty good at keeping socialism out of the supply side of the economy.
Well this is certainly going to p*** off his friends of the New York times
You can't square this with the fact that Brooks is the quintessential #NeverTrumper. If Trump has shown he is effective at one thing, it is negotiating his way through free markets, delivering value when the other guy has the opportunity to walk away from the deal, whether it be in real estate or in his various television activities. He is just very good at giving people what they want.
But that is what no one in the Intellectual But Idiot class wants. Their job is to impose decisions on people that are in their own best interests, whether they understand it or not, as determined by graduates of Harvard, or in this case, the University of Chicago, which actually, famously, espouses a free-market philosophy.
But some of them are. And some of them are both.
The world is just too complicated.
And in trying to treat Utopia, they instead create hell on Earth.
And now he’s a Commie?
He’s still a socialist at heart.
I only read the first bits, but he should just read What Is To Be Done by Lenin and how it was almost exactly put into place. Shortage economy and all. If these absolute morons would look just a little while ago in the USSR and Poland in the 70’s and 80’s they’d get their answers
Socialism does create a learning system. But the feedback is being sent to the Gulag or just being shot in the back of the head (or maybe "hanging yourself" in a jail cell) by one of Dear Leader's minions. Economic production and serving your fellow man is no where on the list.