All Newt said was that social-engineering from either the right or the left, is fundamentally incompatible with liberty (read Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek to understand why).
I wish people would stop pulling a contextomy with this statement.
“All Newt said was that social-engineering from either the right or the left, is fundamentally incompatible with liberty (read Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek to understand why).”
What does “Road to Serfdom” have to do with it? Are you trying to say Ryan is a rightwing socialist? Because that’s the only way Newt’s and your point makes sense. But Ryan was only proposing we do a little less engineering. If ceasing to engineer is itself a form of engineering, and maybe it is according to a certain , fine. Then there’s no way out of social engineering without social engineering, and I really have no idea what Newt’s point is.
Just Newt blowing hot air, per usual. He, like every lifelong politician ever, paints the do-nothing middle as the only reasonable position. Socialist if you do socialism, and socialist if you ease up on it, too. Somehow, though, keeping on doing as we’ve done, with a perpetual upward motion on a gradual enough curve, isn’t socialist. Makes no sense whatsoever, but doesn’t have to because the power of political inertia is on his side, and no one pays too much attention to words.