The Project To Restore America
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This article is among the reasons why I often argue that language does matter. It does matter how we talk about things. We have given up ground to the anti-capitalists by allowing them to convince us that society=government. It doesn't. It's even less true as we have more national policy and less local government and governance.
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... when Maddow says "America," she means not individual Americans or society but government. And now her fallacy is clear. Frédéric Bastiat identified it in 1850. In his classic, The Law, Bastiat wrote that the "socialist" confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education... We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
This article is among the reasons why I often argue that language does matter. It does matter how we talk about things. We have given up ground to the anti-capitalists by allowing them to convince us that society=government. It doesn't. It's even less true as we have more national policy and less local government and governance.