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on Tea Party
Good for OPB for taking a thoughtful look at a much maligned popular movement.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on Your State of the Union
Actually the Federalist Papers -- particularly #10 -- discuss the Tyranny of the Majority and the threat it poses to individual liberty.
Much of the discussion about this threat pre-dates the French Revolution.
If you want to embrace the Terror, be my guest. I'll embrace Liberty.
Sorry if I came across as snarky - and thanks for listening to the show.
-Tom Cox
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Your State of the Union
I should clarify that I'm intrigued by Fareed Zakaria's observations in The Future of Freedom, that increases in direct democracy and increases in public access to Congressional committee work may actually lead to a reduction in freedom.
However, I am not an advocate of "secret government" as our host put it. I didn't want to disrupt the flow of the conversation to stick that clarification into the broadcast, so I'm posting it here, where it will be enshrined forever. ;-)
-Tom Cox
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