People want the early stages of Liberalism like people want the early stages of Socialism.
In the later stages of Socialism you run out of other people's money/food/ect
In the later Liberalism you run out of Liberty/Individuality/God
There is no way to stop the train of either
Thought of the day, in today's show with @yaronbrook:
what if the new Right...is actually a new old Left??
“...a great deal of the economic program of the “new right” takes its cues from the older social democratic tradition of the left.” (Deneen, Regime Change, p. xii).
“the liberty to buy every imaginable consumer good does little to assuage the widespread economic anxiety and discontent over waxing inequality(...)
Marx once argued that the greatest source of economic discontent was not necessarily inequality but alienation—the separation of worker from product and the attendant loss of any connection with the goal and object of one’s efforts. Today’s economy not only maintains and extends this alienation (Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed, pp.9, 10)
“liberty consists of independence from the arbitrariness not only of a king but of an employer" (idem, p. 187).
(Going live in a few hours, here: https://t.co/aU6Kcex9bi )
@NapoleonBonabot "Think of the Environment!" (destroys landscape to mine dertiest coal) 🇩🇪
"Thank you for exporting all your manufacturing to us even though we have 10x the CO2/productivity costs. Keep saving the world. LOL"🇨🇳
@rstemler1@gummibear737 People miss the core problem with today, not (as) present in the past. He was married and had kids.
The only tragedies of the past that compare to this current hardship are the ones that invalidate this advantage at scale (black plague, Mongolian Hord, ect)
@gummibear737 When has the right ever done this?
Sell out America so doners can get rich, sure. But think of any case that would support this line of thinking.
@BowTiedTrance@FrankTweets2026 My guess is that he got enough positive feedback from his audience that offset the cost.
Don't know if he was more extraverted, but if so that would make the theory more likely.