Prophet, enemy, or. . leader?

[Finding Rawls]

The very difficulty of avoiding the enactments of the federal government is of course the great attraction of centralization to many of its proponents. It will enable them more effectively, they believe, to legislate programs that--as they see it--are in the interest of the public, whether it be the transfer of income from the rich to the poor or from private to governmental purposes. They are in a sense right. But this coin has two sides. The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm. The great tragedy of the drive to centralization, as of the drive to extend the scope of government in general, is that it is mostly led by men of good will who will be the first to rue its consequences.


Forgot. . .Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

[DireStrike]

1. I'd say flawed visionary.

He's almost got it. We need centralized government with decentralized debate.

In other words, democracy with teeth and directability. The decision-making process needs to be impossible for a few to co-opt or destroy.

[Finding Rawls]

3. So decentralized debate

will change the makeup of America's political beliefs? I hope so, but I'm not that sure.

[RBHam]

2. All three...

Albert Pike perverted the ancient truths of freemasonry and the end result is the current world view of constant warfare and environmental exploitation...