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I'm a John Mackey Libertarian

If I wanted to sum up everything I want the Free Liberal to be about, I could not do better than John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, as he has articulated his speech, " Winning The Battle of Freedom and Prosperity" posted at LibertyUnbound.com.

If you don't read anything else this year, you must read this. A snippet:

The Left entices the young with promises of community, love, purpose, peace, health, compassion, caring, and environmental sustainability. The Left's vision of how to meet these higher needs in people is fundamentally flawed. But the idealism and the call to the higher need levels is magnetic and seductive, nonetheless. The irony of the situation, as I see it, is that the Left has idealistic visions of higher human potential and social responsibility but has no effective strategies to realize its vision. The freedom movement has strategies that could meet higher human potential and social responsibility but lacks the idealism and vision to implement these strategies. I assert that the freedom movement can become a successful mass movement today if it will consciously adopt a more idealistic approach to its marketing, branding, and overall vision, and embrace a vision of meeting higher human potentials and greater social responsibility.

I'm definitely a John Mackey libertarian. Or perhaps, John Mackey is the definition of "Free Liberal."

-- Kevin D. Rollins

Posted by Kevin D. Rollins on May 7, 2006 12:24 PM |

Comments

I was both encouraged and disappointed by Mackey's speech.

I still commits the fundamental flaw of so many free-market types and libertarians:

He uses a bad stereo-type of the Left and will alienate them. He also says nothing of the Right. By doing so, the very refocusing he's trying to do will fail because he's alienating many potential voters with a false dichotomy

Posted by: John | May 25, 2006 10:55 AM

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