Thursday, August 31, 2006

Ideologues vs. plain people

Click here: Get Serious, Amigos by William Ratliff

No question, there are ideological leaders (Castro, Hugo Chavez) who want to follow dead ideoloogies.

Most people want to better themselves, on their own, with safety nets.

My AEI colleague Michael Novak, author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism explained it well, and has had a real impact in Latin America.

The much-missed Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed (when he was US Ambassador to India) that the socialist Brit Fabian Society had a major impact around the world --- and set back economic progress by many decades.

Too bad

I think we're mostly on the right track now.

Ben

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