tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4378837279953437853..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: How We Choose to Be GovernedThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-83425546177486405682016-03-10T06:40:34.569-08:002016-03-10T06:40:34.569-08:00I do reference the Square Deal speech once or twic...<br />I do reference the Square Deal speech once or twice every year because I find it a good way to recalibrate my own political compass and hope others may also.<br /><br />Of course there's much in the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of Conservatism, that today's Tories and even many Libs would find unwelcome, particularly his advocacy of conservation and preserving the land for future generations.<br /><br />I remember being taken to Mt. Rushmore by my parents on a then-typical road trip holiday in the 60s. Americans swarmed the place to stare at the carvings of their national heroes - including Jefferson, Lincoln and T. Roosevelt. The wisdom that those three presidents bestowed on their people is largely forgotten. We imagine ourselves as different creatures with different principles when, in reality, we are people transformed and living with values not of our own but inculcated by and for the benefit of others.<br /><br />Here's one example. There has been enormous wealth created during Obama's terms, post 2008. Almost every bit of it has gone to a narrow segment of the American population, those who have most and need least. People don't understand how eerily that result mirrors feudalism. That's the way it used to work.<br /><br />The world Roosevelt here describes is the antithesis of feudalism and yet we think it radical. We have been well conditioned.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-40410291813786844772016-03-10T05:56:18.021-08:002016-03-10T05:56:18.021-08:00I read this the first time over a year ago, possib...I read this the first time over a year ago, possibly pointed there by you, and was astonished (ASTONISHED!)...how far has acceptable political discussion fallen when Theodore Roosevelt sounds like a raging Bolshevik?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com