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Wayne Doubletree Resident (75.120.31.218) on 1/1/2018 - 2:23 p.m. says: ( 161 views , 9 likes )

"100 years? Of progressive policies "

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Long, but good read on contemporary social problems in the US

Appalachia, specifically, but the point is applicable elsewhere. The money quote :

"It’s a blow that hit many central Appalachian counties a decade ago, the

grim conclusion of the great cynical experiment played out upon its

people. Americans, like central Appalachians, are told that problems of

health and poverty stem from the moral failings of individuals, not of

society. Meanwhile, their country’s institutions are embracing the same

ideology that laid waste to the coalfields—that profit equals

prosperity, regardless of its true costs."

https://qz.com/1167671/the-100-year-capitalist-experiment-that-keeps-appalachia-poor-sick-and-stuck-on-coal/

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The previous 100 years of more "capitalist" policies lifted more people out of poverty than any other period . . . Yet during the rise of the most progressive time in US history it's capitalism's fault.  

Right.  

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"The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."



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