In the mafia movie Godfather Part 3, the crime boss Michael Corleone, when confronted with the difficulties of trying to take his crime family legitimate, frustratingly states, “It took me to go legitimate to find out where the real criminals are.” Is Statesmanship still possible in today’s political context? Interestingly, one of Susan B. Anthony’s biggest hurdles in women suffrage movement existed, subsequently, because it stood linked with temperance, “ensuring its defeat by men who feared that giving women the vote would lead to restrictions on alcohol.” When General Marshall turned Europe into an American taxpayer funded welfare system for big business, did he envision the vast expansion of government at home, the beginnings of the
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Thomas Sowell, the famed economist, presents the answer to whether a Statesmanship still possible in current political context in Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One. Sowell offers the answer in the form of question, “A student asked his history professor: “Where did slavery come from?” “You’re asking the wrong question,” the professor replied. “The real question is: Where did freedom come from?” John P. McCormick in his work, Machiavelli's "Way of Freedom" or Path to Tyranny considers the reason for the political duplicity facing any true Statesmen : Political Machiavellianism . However, McCormick states, even Machiavelli envisioned a democratic politics that establishes, from both below and above, hindrances that forestall the …show more content…
There stands 41,000 different sub-denominations of the Christian faith; nevertheless, I seriously doubt Jesus himself could have built that much agreement on one question. If people of faith cannot provide sincere altruism, why do people expect true sincerity from their political leadership? The reasoning for both remains simple psychology, as a first level hierarchical need for safety and security (basic needs) outmaneuvers the need for hard truth. As Murray Rothbard discloses in his 1973 book, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, “the State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers; it makes certain, secure and relatively ‘peaceful’ the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.” In 1759, Benjamin Franklin reminded his fellow colonists "they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." For Franklin, liberty stood as the supreme good, and a people capable of surrendering its freedoms in exchange for security is not fit for self-governance, or even "safety." Whereas, a century later, another Statesman, Abraham Lincoln appeared before Congress to justify his unilateral decision to suspend
Thomas Sowell, the famed economist, presents the answer to whether a Statesmanship still possible in current political context in Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One. Sowell offers the answer in the form of question, “A student asked his history professor: “Where did slavery come from?” “You’re asking the wrong question,” the professor replied. “The real question is: Where did freedom come from?” John P. McCormick in his work, Machiavelli's "Way of Freedom" or Path to Tyranny considers the reason for the political duplicity facing any true Statesmen : Political Machiavellianism . However, McCormick states, even Machiavelli envisioned a democratic politics that establishes, from both below and above, hindrances that forestall the …show more content…
There stands 41,000 different sub-denominations of the Christian faith; nevertheless, I seriously doubt Jesus himself could have built that much agreement on one question. If people of faith cannot provide sincere altruism, why do people expect true sincerity from their political leadership? The reasoning for both remains simple psychology, as a first level hierarchical need for safety and security (basic needs) outmaneuvers the need for hard truth. As Murray Rothbard discloses in his 1973 book, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, “the State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers; it makes certain, secure and relatively ‘peaceful’ the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.” In 1759, Benjamin Franklin reminded his fellow colonists "they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." For Franklin, liberty stood as the supreme good, and a people capable of surrendering its freedoms in exchange for security is not fit for self-governance, or even "safety." Whereas, a century later, another Statesman, Abraham Lincoln appeared before Congress to justify his unilateral decision to suspend