Tuesday, November 05, 2013

The disappearing responsibles …

… Arnold Kling, Kenneth Minogue on The Servile Mind | Library of Economics and Liberty. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The inescapable conclusion is that the rulers of democratic states judge the populations of democratic states to be incompetent over a whole range of important matters—yet these are the very people who are charged by the constitution with deciding who should have the power to rule them... this is a problem whose salience increases over time because democratic governments have revealed an almost continuous drive to take more and more control over the details of society, and particularly to judge more and more people unable to live their own lives.

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