"The pressures on them are thus to kow-tow to populism..." says this blogger commended by Jonathan Portes: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/05/immigration-the-preference-problem.html
Is democracy to be dismissed so casually as mere populism?
Are we to be governed by an aristocracy? (and do not forget Edmund Burke was part of the aristocracy).
You can see that this blogger thinks that the aristocracy should be the liberal intelligentsia, but I'm afraid that is not how these things work.
Human nature being what it is, any aristocracy must over a period of decades become hereditary - whether the Dukes of Bedford, or dynastic Labour MPs, or presidents of North Korea.
You are either committed to democracy or you are not.
And democracy means majority rule.
Are you an enemy of the people Mr Blogger? (Chris Dillow Economist and Marxist)
Is democracy to be dismissed so casually as mere populism?
Are we to be governed by an aristocracy? (and do not forget Edmund Burke was part of the aristocracy).
You can see that this blogger thinks that the aristocracy should be the liberal intelligentsia, but I'm afraid that is not how these things work.
Human nature being what it is, any aristocracy must over a period of decades become hereditary - whether the Dukes of Bedford, or dynastic Labour MPs, or presidents of North Korea.
You are either committed to democracy or you are not.
And democracy means majority rule.
Are you an enemy of the people Mr Blogger? (Chris Dillow Economist and Marxist)
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