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Red meat for pickle and gang.
Posted on: February 7, 2017 at 09:13:16 CT
GA Tiger MU
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Ok, I can live with this. Any system is only as good as the people who seek, and obtain, power. (My diversion here, absent the article.)
Hayek’s accuracy—so great for him as a thinker, so unfortunate for us—lies in his perception of the inherent tendency of statist systems to promise the undeliverable and to seek overweening power vainly to attempt it. Even more than most, such a system attracts leaders hungry for power and willing to lie about what they can achieve. Presidential politics is drawing mediocrities and charlatans while inducing laxity in the citizenry because so unhealthily much power changes hands in elections.
“Rule of law provides the criterion which enables us to distinguish between those measures which are and those which are not compatible with a free system.”[8]
Complex and particularized government makes bargaining and coalition-building rather than the rule of law into the supreme value. The result, Hayek writes, is “a government which cannot, even if it wished, obey any principles, but must maintain itself by handing out special favours to particular groups. It must buy its authority by discrimination.”[9]
- See more at: http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/he-tried-to-warn-us/#sthash.lQXtWufv.dpuf
Hayek’s accuracy—so great for him as a thinker, so unfortunate for us—lies in his perception of the inherent tendency of statist systems to promise the undeliverable and to seek overweening power vainly to attempt it. Even more than most, such a system attracts leaders hungry for power and willing to lie about what they can achieve. Presidential politics is drawing mediocrities and charlatans while inducing laxity in the citizenry because so unhealthily much power changes hands in elections.
“Rule of law provides the criterion which enables us to distinguish between those measures which are and those which are not compatible with a free system.”[8]
Complex and particularized government makes bargaining and coalition-building rather than the rule of law into the supreme value. The result, Hayek writes, is “a government which cannot, even if it wished, obey any principles, but must maintain itself by handing out special favours to particular groups. It must buy its authority by discrimination.”[9]
- See more at: http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/he-tried-to-warn-us/#sthash.lQXtWufv.dpuf
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Red meat for pickle and gang. - GA Tiger MU - 2/7 09:13:16
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