Anonymous asked:
elementarynationalism answered:
I’m going to commit a nationalist sin here in saying this, but I do actually quite like her.
You can criticise her not having strong principles on economic policy other than what’s provided for by notions of ‘stability’ and you’d be right, but at some point we have to refrain from habits of Austrian/Chicago School autism and look at what we’ve got, which is a prime minister who’s in politics because of strong faith and love of country, who takes a dim view toward grand utopian schemes.
Nine times out of ten I think that’s going to come off well for us.
Conventional economic theory doesn’t do so well with nations, cultures, and religions, since while states taxing things can be part of their assumptions, states fighting economic wars against each other and massive differences in cultures are not.
The state is a big part of what makes markets (as we know them, with their globe-spanning corporations and international commodities) feasible in the first place. The culture determines the laws of the state. Culture isn’t a very individual thing, either.
So there’s something to be said for looking beyond economic purism in a candidate and looking at their general outlook instead.
