Manipulation as policy: how Obama’s transformational coalition plays ‘We the People’ for suckers
Shortly before the 2008 presidential election, Senator Barack Obama said that “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” He also said taxation “comes down to values.” Seventy years earlier in “Their Morals and Ours,” Communist Leon Trotsky promoted “the greatest possible happiness for the greatest possible number.” Before that, John Stuart Mill likewise moralized in Utilitarianism as had Jeremy Bentham in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Trotsky invoked the two philosophers to justify any tactic “which lead[s] to the common welfare.” Read More
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