Subject: Transpartisan map
Date: Mon, Jun 2, 2014
Msg: 101049
Our goal this month, as per Mark Gerzon's initial post, was to make a map of the transpartisan landscape.
I would like to propose this map (image below / attached).
In the left column we see the five ambition / resource conflicts that exist whether we like it or not. The shaded rows describe modern government -- the solution our founding fathers came up with. The white areas extend the founders' logic to the rest of the problem space.
It may not be obvious, but absolutely any issue can be placed on this map. Immigration and abortion, for example are about drawing the line about what constitutes a full individual (an individual with rights) in our society. Tax policy is about drawing a line between the individual and the collective. What politicians are allowed to do or not do is the line between the collective and political. Our borders are the line between our political world and foreign nations. What property rights we give to future generations is the line between we-the-living (first 4 rows) and? the future.
It's a different map than I suspect Mark Gerzon -- or anyone -- was thinking of... but worthy of consideration, I believe.
- Rick Raddatz, http://IncentiveReform.org
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