I’m not sure about every line item in the article, but I think “Pursuit Of Happiness” would be a strong, positive theme for a GOP campaign, and is verbatim from the Constituion. Better than wishy-washy “Hope And Change”. If a politician were to ask, “Are you happier than you were ten years ago?” it could trigger some basic thought processes with people who normally don’t spend a lot of effort thinking.
It would provide an opportunity to get across the fact that the Constititution doesn’t guarantee actual happiness, but the opportunity to make it happen.
“I’m not sure about every line item in the article, but I think “Pursuit Of Happiness” would be a strong, positive theme for a GOP campaign, and is verbatim from the Constituion. Better than wishy-washy “Hope And Change”. If a politician were to ask, “Are you happier than you were ten years ago?” it could trigger some basic thought processes with people who normally don’t spend a lot of effort thinking.
It would provide an opportunity to get across the fact that the Constititution doesn’t guarantee actual happiness, but the opportunity to make it happen.”
I agree with all in this post.
I think it would get people to question what is happiness, what has government done to promote it, in the attempt to grant it, but has failed over and over again. For example, security isn’t happiness; Security as a product government attempts to produce, is a false answer to fear, and displaces responsibility for addressing the fear onto government. At a huge cost.
Who is best in the position to make us as individuals happy, and how best to enable individuals to take responsibility for their own happiness, and how government attempts fail in that end goal. Indeed, happiness ties into individual rights and the required responsibility the left tells us we don’t need.