The Free Market Promotes Self-worth, Self-sufficiency, Shared

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?

I Realized That Conservatism Was The Philosophy That Best Suited Me, With Its Emphasis On Individual Liberty, Personal Responsibility, And Merit.

The Statist Deflects Public Scorn For The Consequences Of His Own Central Planning By Blaming The Very Industry He Is Sabotaging For Supply Dislocations And Price Hikes.

Activist Supreme Courts Are Not New. The Dred Scott Decision In 1856, Imposing Slavery In Free Territories; The Plessy Decision In 1896, Imposing Segregation On A Private Railroad Company; The Korematsu Decision In 1944, Upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s Internment Of American Citizens, Mostly Japanese Americans; And The Roe Decision In 1973, Imposing Abortion On The Entire Nation; Are Examples Of The Consequences Of Activist Courts And Justices.

Conservatism Is The Antidote To Tyranny Precisely Because Its Principles Are The Founding Principles.