“What the majority wants is unsustainable, and history shows that it is the path to a totalitarian government.”
It strikes me that it’s much easier for a common culture to deny itself the goodies that government offers to dole out at the expense of their children. But when there is no common-culture, then the central government becomes the auctioneer at a bidding contest between the pols representing competing groups. Everybody loses in the long-run because the future is being mortgaged.
“It strikes me that it’s much easier for a common culture to deny itself the goodies that government offers to dole out at the expense of their children. But when there is no common-culture, then the central government becomes the auctioneer at a bidding contest between the pols representing competing groups. Everybody loses in the long-run because the future is being mortgaged.”
Excellent point, and it helps to explain how we got to this point.