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Yglesias thinks Chait’s sermon on the irrelevance of ideas is “the definitive rebuttal of the notion that Republicans are ascendant because they have all the ideas, that Democrats need new ideas to win, that idea-quality or idea-novelty have anything to do with winning,
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4 years ago
Is it any wonder such a reactionary phenomenon is a little lacking in.. inspiration? If Republicans just talked family values, sustaining traditional institutions\hierarchies in the face of rapidly advancing plural heterogenous modernity, they'd have a similar dilemma.
What's to be done? Fully embrace economic (neo)liberalism, the bloodthirsty unbridled competition of the marketplace, without abandoning progressive ideals, or be doomed to intellectual vacuity, preserving the remnants of a golden age that-never-was! Champion a citizen's dividend to replace welfare payments, electoral reform, tax on land values, negative externalities and inheritance rather than productive activity of the average working stiff, unilaterally opening up western markets to the developing world, provide real opposition to ever-expanding IP law that is becoming more draconian, absurd, and harmful to the world's poorest every day, and rediscover the left's fondness for voluntary co-operation. Lookit: ideas!