It seems like our political dialogue in America lacks any philosophical depth. We are all the details but not the core issues? Why is that? Instead of arguing and discussing that which is so divisive why cant we argue on the broad scale on issues that our universal.. We should establish the role of government and its current operation and from there we could begin peeling the layers. i dont know what do you think?
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There is a huge challenge to getting both good discussion and good government in a world run by the drive-by media.
As long as the purpose of the media is to sell product, its presentation method will be for that end, by entertaining the masses at a superficial level, and not for any great ethical purpose.
As for starting with the role of government, though I can understand a libertarian wanting to open with that, I would say let's put that on the backburner for a bit, and instead talk about something philosophically deeper.
"How" is less important than "what", and we haven't decided in agreement on the "what".
In America, the foundational goal is, in my opinion, to create a dynamic balance between the yin-yang complementary components of freedom and security that create liberty and justice respectively.
Indeed, when someone's liberty is greatly exceeded, another's justice is likely being infringed, and vice versa.
Today, we have two political parties, the liberal Democrats and the conservative Republicans. The liberal Dems value freedom way over security in social issues and security way over freedom in economic-fiscal issues. The conservative Repubs value security way over freedom in social issues and freedom way over security in economic-fiscal issues.
And, of course, libertarians value freedom way over security in everything.
Thus we have a dysfunctional "bipolar" policy swing of an extreme quality happening in America all the time, often at the freedom or justice-expense of scores of millions of American citizens.
This will create an unstable living environment, prone to economic recession and social strife.
Since creating a dynamic balance between liberty and justice, to truly create "liberty and justice for all" as our citizen's pledge of allegiance states, is of the greatest foundational value to American citizens, we need to look at all the issues from a factual perspective and in the best interest of U.S.
citizens, and from there we will most likely be able to develop a political philosophy that works best for America.
The challenge here is that the powers that be presently don't want that; they don't want what the great majority of America's citizens would like.
The powers that be simply want to keep power so that they can continue to effect their dysfunctional imbalanced policies.
They keep power by appealing to unresolved family of origin damage in a number of people who would be movers and shakers politically, irritating them to act out their unresolved issues in the public political arena instead of taking their unresolved issues to a competent mental health practitioner for resolution.
This is a surprisingly effective technique, as nearly everyone has unresolved emotional issuess stemming from childhood, some more than others, and because many have surpressed/repressed these issues, they are not resolved but just waiting to be re-triggered with a message from an activist.
Such acting out is always in an extreme imbalanced manner where the person doing the acting-out polarizes with a person from their past and attempts the corrective emotional experience.
The result is wingish policies.
'Tis sad.