Jason S., if you have a blog, or write regularly for anything, sign me up to read it. You just succinctly and accurately described the rational moral imperative of capitalism. Something all too lost from mainstream, conservative punditry.
This whole election, it has seemed like much of the rhetoric Republican’s depended, and obsessed on was based on character attacks of Obama and attempts to associate him with radical leftists… be it Ayers, Wright, etc. That doesn’t mean Democrats (and the media) didn’t use cheap political tactics themselves, hell they invented the game. And I am not saying that these things about Obama are untrue, or unimportant. But, taking the discussion back to the philosophical and rational roots of the ideals of individualism is SO IMPORTANT, and it works! I know that my discoveries of John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and company are what led to my unholy conversion from liberalism to conservatism. The one-up we individualists and conservatives have on liberals and socialists is that our philosophy, to paraphrase Friedman, is based on an abstract set of rational principles. Compare that to the left, whose entire worldview is based on an emotional premise of utopian equality.
In the arena of ideas, individualism will always trump collectivism. We need to remember this, and stop playing by the rules the Democrats have set.
