Posted by: Jon Henke on Sunday, January 13, 2008 Ezra Klein has always had some sympathy for libertarianism. Let me see if I can offer reason for a bit more of that. Ezra writes of his frustration with the difficulty of making progress on important issues through bipartisan compromise, because (A): It's easy for people of good faith to get together and compromise on their ideas.[NOTE: this is what happens when people outside of government must discuss, negotiate and resolve an issue. We call it a market.] And (B): What's hard is getting people of power together to compromise on their interests.[NOTE: this is what happens when people try to resolve differences wherein consent need not be given. We call that Government.] Ezra is right that bipartisanship isn't really much of an answer to what are fundamental differences of opinion and interests. I would suggest that the best answer is to expand the spectrum of areas where section (A) is the path to resolution. Unfortunately, we seem to be in a place where the two dominant solutions are:
Whatever you may think of the resulting policies, neither of those are healthy conflict resolution systems. |
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