Sunday, September 18, 2011

Chris Ladd picked the wrong metaphor

Hamilton vs. Jefferson All Over Again And concludes:
The rebellion against the Neo-Confederate Revolution must start inside the Republican Party. If we fail to manage the complexity of our age, there are horrors that await. Jefferson’s world is gone, but we can still have a banana republic if we so insist.

The better metaphor is the Revolutionary War.

The issue before the nation is why do we have such a large economy ruled by far away elites in which Western states are deprived of democracy. We have a common language and continent wide transportation. Why cannot we break up into regional government and be more like Europe? The battle is between the Englisd aristocracy in DC and large independent, regional economies.

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