| | Terry, you wrote Ayn Rand famously advocated “a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.” It’s time for the Randians to put up or shut up on that score. Let them translate this sound bite into a specific Constitutional amendment, if they can. Ayn Rand also said that a philosophical and cultural revolution must precede a political one. You can't expect political change until and unless the cultural and philosophical groundwork has been laid, and the latter has a long way to go in our society. You can't expect results without causes. If a constitutional amendment for the separation of state and economics were proposed today, it would fail abysmally.
This is one of the critiques of libertarianism that Objectivists are making -- that the libertarians rush into politics without a proper foundation and process of education. We're not even close to achieving the kind of political consensus needed for the passage of a constitutional amendment banning state intervention into economic affairs.
- Bill
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