David Brooks had an column about Obama yesterday in the NYT comparing hippie protesters from the sixties with Tea Baggers as equally bad for democracy.
I agree with him, but I give less credit (for benefit over harm) to conservative foot-draggers and more to liberal anarchists:
Democrats believe all human beings are intrinsically “good,” and that government can enhance that “goodness,” by protecting individuals from the suffering can make them do evil things. Free markets are more likely to reward bad behavior and increase suffering without good (possibly but not necessarily large) government at local, state, and federal levels.
Republicans believe all humans are flawed, if not outright sinners, and that individual suffering is necessary to bring about good from evil. Suffering under Free Markets is good for the soul. Paying taxes never is, unless -- and only as long as -- you have an expensive house and kids in a good school system.
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