Is politics the problem?
Writing over at The Daily Dish, Peter Suderman calls the morass over healthcare an inevitable “feature of democratic politics.” His solution?
Given my libertarian streak, I’d also add a final thought: The way to avoid the maddening convulsions of politics isn’t to change them, or rise above them, or move past them, or transform them, or whatever the trendy term of art is on any given day. It’s to avoid them — and reduce their power to hold sway over how we live. And the more decisions about our lives and welfare we put in the hands of politicians, the harder that will be to do.
Eventually, this argument goes one place: reduce the power and purview of the state. What I think Suderman is missing is that limiting state power doesn’t make politics less democratic–it makes them more so. Why will people angle any less for advantage, or shout irrationally or “convulse” if left to sort decisions out privately, rather than publicly (and for themselves, rather than through others)?
–Sam
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