Sunday, May 23, 2010

Choose Wisely, or Be Enslaved

America faces a new culture war.

This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country’s future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise—limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In the other, America will move toward European-style statism grounded in expanding bureaucracies, a managed economy and large-scale income redistribution. These visions are not reconcilable. We must choose.

I think the “culture war” is not new.  In fact, the culture war referenced by Arthur C. Brooks in his Washington Post piece America’s new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government control, has been ongoing, skirmishing around Americans daily, for over one hundred (100) years.  Many Americans have chosen to ignore this fact, because they did not perceive they had been wounded, or personally attacked, yet.

The “war” is daily intensifying, and Americans will have to choose.  Choose wisely, or be enslaved.

Link to Brooks’ piece via what if?

Posted by John Venlet on 05/23 at 09:36 AM
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