William Voegeli writes this extensive essay for The Claremont Institute in which he asks some very interesting questions about where the Democrats have been and where they are going, if anywhere, in the future. Just what do Democrats believe anyway? What, as Rand would say, are their axioms and how do they shape the actions of Democrats in ethics and policy?
The answer that Voegeli offers is that the problems from which the Democrats suffer have deep historical and philosophical roots going back to the last century. And it is one of the basic assumptions of Democrats that one cannot place any intellectual limits on problems needing to be solved and thus there is no limit to the size of a government dedicated to solving each and every one of them using your taxpayer dollars to do so.
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