J.E. Dyer:
In an opinion piece on Thursday, David Brooks, “conservative” columnist for the New York Times, opened with sentences of such remarkable wrongness that it is imperative to call them out.
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Brooks gets it exactly wrong as regards the Framers of the US Constitution. They didn’t see democracy as desirable, if requiring a check on people’s tendency to vote benefits for themselves. Using the example of ancient Athens, they argued that democracy was itself the problem: it was a unique accelerator for this evil tendency, and was unsustainable precisely for that reason.
via Man, the state, and the error of David Brooks « Hot Air.