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To: PGalt
As a capitalist country, the US social system is built on the belief that individual interests should prevail over that of any social group

I utterly disagree with that premise. A social system, and organization is just as important to economic liberty and prosperity as it is to a person's liberty and happiness. The difference is that communists, socialsts and bureaucro-fascists in DC believe in centralized planning.

The problem with central planning is that it lacks felxibility and the ability to correct when it is wrong. It prohibits individual initiative necessary to make any project work.

The American system relies much more on a constant ongoing negotiation between individual members of a social or economic unit at a local level and that bigger organization. It's a constantly swinging pendulum. General MacArthur argued why that contributed to American military success over better organized, equipped and trained armies.

If someone doesn't like his position he was free to bolt to a mountain top in Idaho, until Reno decided this was a threat to western civilization and called in FBI snipers.

It's a scary system to those who don't understand it. It always seems like it's about to lurch out of control and go over the edge - which it will when the idiots who think they can run everything from Washington DC get totalitarian control.

30 posted on 06/27/2020 6:01:35 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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I utterly disagree with that premise.

As do I. The entire article is filled with false premise, much like Barry’s “charter of negative liberties” (Constitution) ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do to you.


34 posted on 06/27/2020 6:12:40 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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