tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post4402886049924398824..comments2024-03-29T02:19:19.866-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: William Hogeland — What Did the Founders Mean by “Democracy”?mike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-7018408277319304912018-11-01T01:14:30.268-04:002018-11-01T01:14:30.268-04:00Hogeland is the crank who smears Alexander Hamilto...Hogeland is the crank who smears Alexander Hamilton and appears utterly incapable of understanding the history of science, technology, and how Enlightenment ideas spread slowly but inexorably, making the transition from feudalism to republicanism a painfully convoluted and complex story. This history can be easily misunderstood and misinterpreted because the "good" faction was always compelled to compromise some of its principles in order to achieve political results. While Hogeland is correct when he writes that the wrong-wing argument of "democracy versus republic" is misleading and mostly false, he is unable effectively defend republicanism because he, like most leftists, dismiss the accomplishments of the USA founders as just a continuation of elite rule. They thereby cripple themselves intellectually by cutting themselves off from any understanding of the Enlightenment and its political culmination in the establishment of the American republic. Tony Wikrenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10964470090360660584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-91418061122723574252018-10-31T07:28:34.833-04:002018-10-31T07:28:34.833-04:00Don’t tell me...
They meant it’s what we have wh...Don’t tell me... <br /><br />They meant it’s what we have when the left wins and what we don’t have when the right wins maybe ???.Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.com