tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post5691387233501737026..comments2024-02-27T15:47:47.923-05:00Comments on Principled Perspectives: Incumbents’ Fear of 'Wild, Wild West' Campaign Funding is a Good Thingprincipled perspectiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-64113120690644348452016-10-27T15:28:06.961-04:002016-10-27T15:28:06.961-04:00"I think statist ideas should be legally, phy...<i>"I think statist ideas should be legally, physically barred from consideration by elected and appointed gvt. officials under a system of individual rights, gvt. and law."</i><br /><br />We already have the tool to do just that—a constitution. The challenge is to craft the constitution to protect individual rights and keep it that way. That requires an enlightened citizenry, which means an intellectual leadership capable of keeping the citizenry enlightened.principled perspectiveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-80899625002201737092016-10-27T14:32:06.534-04:002016-10-27T14:32:06.534-04:00Before Citizens United and interpretations of it b...Before Citizens United and interpretations of it by you and others, my problem was I didn't even know we'd been denied a significant part of our freedom of speech. I probably have similar ignorance about other political issues.<br /><br />But, I think statist ideas should be legally, physically barred from consideration by elected and appointed gvt. officials under a system of individual rights, gvt. and law. It's supposed to be individual rights, not crime. Once an idea or proposal is identified as statist, law and gvt. automatically bars it from consideration by elected and appointed officials. I can't imagine what I might be missing that would make me change my mind about that.Mike Kevittnoreply@blogger.com