You know how Reagan started wearing a flag pin and everyone else had to do so after or be called unamerican (path dependency)-- the same thing has happened in economic conservatism, Reagan's (who clearly should've stuck to acting) policies were so absurd that everyone after had to top him off in absurdity.
There is a time for a country to be protectionist and there is a time for a country to open borders-- there is a time to lower taxes, and there is a time to increse taxes. Unfortunately, die-hard idealogues are not capable of this flexibility... even more unfortunately, majority of so-called ideologues are not even fully aware of the theories behind their 'ideology' (I'm willing to bet majority of 'communists' in the world who've lived have never read Das Kapital and other works of Marx/Engel and their critiques-- or most Americans any works of Keynes, or hell even Friedman the granpa of Reaganomics). they just parrot what they've been told-- by-- very appropraitely-- actors-turned-presidents.
The best answer progressives have had are exaggerated people like Moore and Olbermann who I feel, unfortunately, are not able to tap into deep historical psyche of American society to generate change. Maybe I'm wrong... idk.
There is a time for a country to be protectionist and there is a time for a country to open borders-- there is a time to lower taxes, and there is a time to increse taxes. Unfortunately, die-hard idealogues are not capable of this flexibility... even more unfortunately, majority of so-called ideologues are not even fully aware of the theories behind their 'ideology' (I'm willing to bet majority of 'communists' in the world who've lived have never read Das Kapital and other works of Marx/Engel and their critiques-- or most Americans any works of Keynes, or hell even Friedman the granpa of Reaganomics). they just parrot what they've been told-- by-- very appropraitely-- actors-turned-presidents.
The best answer progressives have had are exaggerated people like Moore and Olbermann who I feel, unfortunately, are not able to tap into deep historical psyche of American society to generate change. Maybe I'm wrong... idk.
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