What is Communitarianism?

[kandrathe]

As said, lots of material to digest, needs time.

Yes, me too. It's clear though that at least in the US, both democrats and republicans have embraced communitarianism to some degree. So, that feeling that I always have in politics, that there are no choices (or only bad choices) has a basis, and its foundation is a philosophy that is being embraced by the people who govern us. This term, communitarianism, has only been around for about a decade. Writing about it has been incidental up until lately, and those who are against it have been labeled as "conspiracy theorists".

For Republicans its the "kinder gentler nation", the "compassionate conservatism", and the reality that under the eight years of Bush we saw the largest of expansion of government since FDR. That was, until they passed the stimulus bill last week, which did in a month what Bush took years to do. This is a big topic, a global topic, and it affects the EU as much as it does the USA.

For example, I can look at Agenda 21, chapter 19 and see directly the genesis of the CPSIA (along with the much publicized "China" lead incidents of 2006). Which then makes you wonder about the crackpots who makes claims that we are manipulated by a collusion of the government/industry/press. Could it be that in order to have a need to justify the CPSIA, the government needed the press to report on "lead paint" incidents blaming China? Rather than the CPSIA being a response to those incidents, could it be that the solution was ready and waiting for a problem?

9/11 is another example. We all know, and it is well documented in the Neocon's letters to then Pres. Bill Clinton that Iraq was a target well before Bush came to power. The Iraq war was a "solution in the can", awaiting a justification for revealing it at a time when it would be accepted (and then just barely). At that time (when it really mattered), almost everyone was "for" war against Iraq. It was only then later, to maintain the facade of choice that sides were drawn. Maybe I'm just being suspicious. Perhaps we are being set up again for the next justification for releasing the next solution which has already been scripted.