Why can’t we just drop social engineering and focus on the economy? Without a good economy everything else goes down the rat hole.
I found this speech, given by a former president, and it seems pretty relevent today. Here’s an excerpt:
“...Negligence of its regulations, inattention to its recommendations, if not disobedience to its authority, not only in individuals but in States, soon appeared with their melancholy consequences, universal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and commerce, discouragement of necessary manufactures, universal fall in the value of lands and their produce, contempt of public and private faith, loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations, and at length in discontents, animosities, combinations, partial conventions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity...”
That is from John Adams’ inauguration speech and he is discussing the consequences of the Confederation that lead to the formation of the constitutional republic we have today.
There’s no mention of social issues, simply because I think that we have an even higher moral obligation to focus on the protection our republic because it is the foundation of every other liberty we have. I think nearly everyone can agree on that point, and we don’t need to compromise our own personal values for that kind of outreach.
I didn’t realize Steele was pro gay-marriage.
Gee, did he forget the gun controllers and welfare cheats?/s