This is where I will venture outside purely presenting ideas, and into the personal. I wish the French government had done this with the Soviet agents that shaped the direction of government post WWII (indeed, many resistants were communists and wanted to free France not for independence but to allow it to join the Internationale - Bigeard recalls De Gaulle ordering him to Toulouse to replace one such dangerous new leader). Mitterrand was the peak, but the country's economy (and social structure) was effectively wiped out by successive socialist administrations and even today, around 4% of the population votes communist and it is dangerous and will get you socially ostracized to hold libertarian or even mildly classically liberal views in public (such as considering the minimum wage, or public education, to be negatives). We recently made headlines by proposing 75% income tax for the highest tax band, similar to Britain's 98% capital gains tax in the period just prior to Thatcher. LKY observed all this in Europe and learnt and applied the lessons accordingly in his own country.
As far as I am concerned, they are internal enemies and I wish we had had a Lee Kuan Yew, or at least the willingness to accept that some ideologies are dangerous to prosperity and individual rights. The mob will, however, always vote away their freedom if led down the right salience tunnel. I recognize that I might be in the minority with these thoughts.
As far as I am concerned, they are internal enemies and I wish we had had a Lee Kuan Yew, or at least the willingness to accept that some ideologies are dangerous to prosperity and individual rights. The mob will, however, always vote away their freedom if led down the right salience tunnel. I recognize that I might be in the minority with these thoughts.