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WE'RE HERE, WE'RE HERE, WE'RE HERE!
Brink Lindsey and I simply see the same world around us and that's all there is to it. His latest book, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture, is on it's way to me as I type this, so I will soon be able to gauge the depth of our common vision, but after reading his supporting pieces in Reason Magazine and now this month's lead essay at Cato Unbound, to say that I'm startled is an understatement. His "soft libertarianism" is my liberal capitalism, and we both see it everywhere. Lindsey does us the additional favor of advancing a well-supported narrative of the social cataclysms that have brought us to where we are now, at the end of end of the American left-right political era.
Of course the political question left to us is: now what? Lindsey notes that the Libertarian Party is a "fringe operation." Will that change? Will the Democrats or the Republicans evolve? Or can another party emerge?
Back in December Lindsey seemed to be placing his bet on the Democrats, but since then their Congress has descended even farther in the polls than Bush. Certainly we've seen both parties evolve and evolve again over the generations, but can they jettison their twentieth century baggage and evolve at the same increasing speed as our social and political cultures?
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