Whither American Conservatism?

I certainly agree with you that ballot box fraud is not to be tolerated. (See my piece from right after the 2000 election: Politics 2001.) I do not know why the Republican leadership has been so ridiculously slow in engaging far more intently on that point.

William Flax

What you simply refuse to recognize is that none of the factors of production; no form of human interaction, for that matter, occurs in a vacuum. You cannot focus on the problems, wish list, aspirations or fears of one segment in an interactive process, and come up with any rational approach to anything.

No one here is unsympathetic to the plight of those struggling in the present economy. What most of us understand, however, is the cause of the present malaise. It has a direct connection to the prevalence of your form of myopia (tunnel vision) in our Federal Government, today.

William Flax

Here is another sample from the Article:

Then there is a failure to discuss the multi-generational foundations to economic strength. Here, too, ex cathedra pronouncements as to how private enterprise creates wealth--coupled with references to web sites, where the motivated voter can discover a fuller argument--do not accomplish what is needed. Leftists succeed in confusing the issue by endlessly denouncing "trickle down" economics. The reality is that private achievement is never "trickle down," but a building on grounded principles--growth through individual enterprise, based upon personal responsibility, often drawing on the retained fruits of previous achievement, passed down through the generations. It is the retained capital resources of a prosperous people--not Government--that fuels economic growth & innovation; the result of natural renewal in a culture based upon personal responsibility & individual achievement. The claim that allowing people to keep more of what they earn, is somehow an adoption of anything so silly as "trickle down economics," is laughable to anyone who actually comprehends how Capitalism functions.

That is a lot of words to not actually communicate anything.

The difference between a verbal argument, that is only that--a bunch of assertions for a reality that is not actually a reality--and an argument, which employs words to try to trigger images of how actual phenomena interact to establish causation; that difference is the difference between rant & reason.

William Flax

Ok, then I look forward to you posting more than just assertions.

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