To elaborate a bit. The reason the Right claims to be for the free market, but constantly compromises with the left, is because they're both starting from the same moral premise: altruism. Selfless sacrifice for others, the greater good, etc.
Socialism and other systems where the government forces people to serve others, are examples of selfless social systems. In that, if selflessness is the right morality, that's the best kind of social system. If it's morally right to serve others, then if people won't serve others of their own accord, they're being evil and it's morally okay to force them to. Why should any government protect peoples' freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives if it's evil for them to want anything for themselves?
Many people have correctly identified that Capitalism is selfish. And that's why, no matter how well it works, they keep fighting it. Because they see it as evil.
If it's morally right for you to pursue your own self-interest, your own happiness in life, then it's right for you to have some guarantee of owning your own life when there's other people around who might want to interfere. Inalienable individual rights are, thus, primarily a moral principle. An identification of the conditions that are right for the individual to have protected in a society. And Capitalism is the one social system that protects those rights consistently. Thus Capitalism is the only morally righteous social system that has ever existed.
To come back around to wishy-washy Republicans: The reason they claim to be pro-free-market, and then turn around and push statist policies, is because they're trying to defend a selfish system while holding selfless premises. They can't win, because the Leftists are logically consistent. Not consistent with reality of course. But consistent in that their political views do not contradict their moral premises.
Essentially, the Left is fighting for what they think is right. The Right is fighting for what they think is wrong. That's why the Left is so much more consistent than the Right.
I'm fighting for Capitalism, knowing that I'm fighting for what's right. That's what it will take to win.
To elaborate a bit. The reason the Right claims to be for the free market, but constantly compromises with the left, is because they're both starting from the same moral premise: altruism. Selfless sacrifice for others, the greater good, etc.
Socialism and other systems where the government forces people to serve others, are examples of selfless social systems. In that, if selflessness is the right morality, that's the best kind of social system. If it's morally right to serve others, then if people won't serve others of their own accord, they're being evil and it's morally okay to force them to. Why should any government protect peoples' freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives if it's evil for them to want anything for themselves?
Many people have correctly identified that Capitalism is selfish. And that's why, no matter how well it works, they keep fighting it. Because they see it as evil.
If it's morally right for you to pursue your own self-interest, your own happiness in life, then it's right for you to have some guarantee of owning your own life when there's other people around who might want to interfere. Inalienable individual rights are, thus, primarily a moral principle. An identification of the conditions that are right for the individual to have protected in a society. And Capitalism is the one social system that protects those rights consistently. Thus Capitalism is the only morally righteous social system that has ever existed.
To come back around to wishy-washy Republicans: The reason they claim to be pro-free-market, and then turn around and push statist policies, is because they're trying to defend a selfish system while holding selfless premises. They can't win, because the Leftists are logically consistent. Not consistent with reality of course. But consistent in that their political views do not contradict their moral premises.
Essentially, the Left is fighting for what they think is right. The Right is fighting for what they think is wrong. That's why the Left is so much more consistent than the Right.
I'm fighting for Capitalism, knowing that I'm fighting for what's right. That's what it will take to win.