tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post116291804988560731..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Theocracy 'Lite'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-1162928797129822252006-11-07T14:46:00.000-05:002006-11-07T14:46:00.000-05:00I myself think that it is a mistake to think of th...I myself think that it is a mistake to think of the political left as “enfeebled.” The fact is that feeble or not, the left has far more voice than we do in the very realms that we must take if we are to expand our reach—primarily the universities. Furthermore, even a dying creed can wrack great havoc in its death spasms. I revoked my support for the Republicans because they claim to support my values in the very act of betraying them, but I am under no illusion as to just how dangerous the left is and just how hard we will have to work to defeat both it <I>and</I> the right.Nicholas Provenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926131141263622350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-1162927788485434302006-11-07T14:29:00.000-05:002006-11-07T14:29:00.000-05:00I myself am not voting Republican for tactical rea...I myself am not voting Republican for tactical reasons. I think the best thing that could happen in the short term, politically, is that the Republican party should get a big slap in the face at the polls today and have to reexamine the principles for which it stands before fielding a candidate for the 2008 presidential run.<BR/><BR/>The author of "Noumenal Self" is absolutely right to draw attention to the important distinction between evangelical religion and the milquetoast religion of only a few decades ago. But, the Democrats scare me because I don't see their economic policies as "enfeebled"; and ultimately I see them as being just as dangerous.<BR/><BR/>According to Ludwig von Mises, an interventionist economy will always lead to more economic dislocation and turmoil, and if more government intervention in the economy is believed to be the solution, a country will wind its way towards greater turmoil, eventually spiraling out of control into full-blown socialism.<BR/><BR/>Going by this theory, it doesn't matter how enfeebled the Democrats' principles seem -- they will still work to wreck our country.<BR/><BR/>Strategically, we have to get the Republican party closer to fiscally conservative policies and far, far away from the Bible thumpers. I still think there is a better chance of that than teaching the Democrats economics. But, as I said, the Republicans need to be taught a harsh lesson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com