Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.
Mark LevinThe Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
Mark LevinClass warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.
Mark LevinTaxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
Mark LevinAmerica has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.
Mark LevinThe Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
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