contribution. i do not mean fatalism. nothing lasts but nothing is inevitable either. by intelligent pessimism i mean things can go wrong in so many ways and democracy is not the normal default position of the world. it is a complex structure depending on the civil society, rich in the kind of social prerequisites that don t just prout up. a free market itself requires courts and contracts, fraud laws and adjudication and arberation and all the rest. it s a complicated system we have and it will not run by itself unless we are constantly recurring and this is summons to recurring back to what the founders gave us. woodrow wilson was the first great progressive and the first president to criticize the american founding which he did not do peripherally. he did root and branch. he said separations of powers
first place. they made an indispensable contribution. by pessimism, i do not mean fatalism. i do not mean that there are any inevitables in this. nothing lasts but nothing is inevitable either. by intelligent pessimism i mean things can go wrong in so many ways, and democracy is not the normal default position of the world. it is a complex structure depending on a civil society, rich in the kind of social prerequisites that don t just sprout up like dandelions in august. a free market itself laissez-faire requires courts and contracts, fraud laws and adjudication and arberation and all the rest. it s a complicated system we have, and it will not run by itself unless we are constantly recurring, and this is a summons to recurring back to what the founders gave us. woodrow wilson was the first great progressive and the first president to criticize the
prerequisites that don t just prout up. a free market itself requires courts and contracts, fraud laws and adjudication and arberation and all the rest. it s a complicated system we have and it will not run by itself unless we are constantly recurring and this is summons to recurring back to what the founders gave us. woodrow wilson was the first great progressive and the first president to criticize the american founding which he did not do peripherally. he did root and branch. he said separations of powers was all right once but now we have this complicated country united by steel rails and copper wire and therefore we need a government to connect with dispatch. headed by a strong president who would be very much like woodrow wilson. okay, you criticize the separation of powers, you get an