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<blockquote data-quote="Ethan N" data-source="post: 3234159" data-attributes="member: 29267"><p>Not with that attitude. <img src="/images/smilies/wink2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink2 :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p><p></p><p>There are always people who think we’re in a new age with new problems and the lessons of the past can’t help us – we’re past that, they say. Hogwash. History is cyclical. The political environment shifts between generations, but the problems are fundamentally the same. There’s nothing new about government manipulation of the economy or special interest groups dominating economic policy. That’s been happening for millennia. It’s been fought successfully before. It can be done again. And even if we didn’t have a chance of having a free market again, we still have to educate and we still have to push back. The more government meddles in the economy, the poorer most of us will be. The proper role of government is not something that can become irrelevant as you’re suggesting. You seem to have a very low view of those who came before us and the things they can teach us. They were up against <em>much</em> bigger obstacles to liberty than we are. There’s no reason to think that they could succeed but we can’t.</p><p></p><p>But the pessimists have to be overcome along the way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ethan N, post: 3234159, member: 29267"] Not with that attitude. :wink2: There are always people who think we’re in a new age with new problems and the lessons of the past can’t help us – we’re past that, they say. Hogwash. History is cyclical. The political environment shifts between generations, but the problems are fundamentally the same. There’s nothing new about government manipulation of the economy or special interest groups dominating economic policy. That’s been happening for millennia. It’s been fought successfully before. It can be done again. And even if we didn’t have a chance of having a free market again, we still have to educate and we still have to push back. The more government meddles in the economy, the poorer most of us will be. The proper role of government is not something that can become irrelevant as you’re suggesting. You seem to have a very low view of those who came before us and the things they can teach us. They were up against [I]much[/I] bigger obstacles to liberty than we are. There’s no reason to think that they could succeed but we can’t. But the pessimists have to be overcome along the way. [/QUOTE]
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