Teddy Roosevelt is still sexy?
Let us now praise Teddy Roosevelt’s “trust-busting” sentiments (and the president who aggressively put his policies into practice, Howard Taft).
The following article nails the problem they illuminated. Too much power in the hands of either corporations or government leads to corruption and the exploitation of workers and our environment.
The one thing missing in this timely Huff Post article is this: simply balancing government and free enterprise is the wrong metaphor. It’s not a bad start, but it won’t keep us alive into the 22nd century. We must conceptualize local and federal government as a REGENERATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE at the center of our social organism which SUPPORTS non-monopolistic free enterprise. Don’t place them in opposition, situate the “Regenastructure” at the center and free enterprise circulating around it. Like the very brains of the social organism, the US Constitution would be at the very core of this interior nervous system, taking feedback from the extremities – voters, journalists, markets, etc.
But making Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting impulses sexy again is a good start:
By Richard North Patterson
12/13/2018
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c1136c1e4b0ac53717b2ce3
For decades, Americans have feared that an oppressive federal government would strangle political and economic freedom. Instead, massive private institutions increasingly direct public policy, distort political discourse and dominate our daily lives.
The problem is not capitalism per se ― as with the worries about government, it’s size. Allowing business enterprises to accumulate unchecked dominance over key sectors of our economy corrodes competition, constrains opportunity and, ultimately, corrupts representative governance. True democracy, it transpires, can flourish only when economic power and prosperity are more equitably distributed.
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