David and Samantha Cameron share an important bond with the Palins

by Clifford F. Thies

For most of us, the emerging conservative-market liberal concensus emerging in the world is long overdue. The challenge, in the modern era, as always, is of how to fashion a government that secures us in our rights while not itself becoming the instrument of our oppression. The position of market liberals that the state can provide a safety net without creating an enormous bureaucracy or undermining self-responsibility can be accepted by mainstream libertarians. Likewise, the position of conservatives that something more than self-interest is needed to tie society together can also be accepted. Accordingly, we, at LibertarianRepublican.net, are not at all surprised that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats of the United Kingdom have been able to fashion a coalition agreement.

David and Samantha Cameron, like Todd and Sarah Palin, embody the center-right belief in family and other forms of voluntary community, as well as in individual freedom and responsibility, in their families. The first child of the Camerons, like the fifth child of the Palins, was special.

Concerning the condition of their first child, David Cameron said, "The news hits you like a freight train ... You are depressed for a while because you are grieving for the difference between your hopes and the reality. But then you get over that, because he's wonderful.” Similarly, this is what Sarah Palin said about her special child, “I’m looking at him right now, and I see perfection. Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?”

For us, life is not about politics, and politics is not about who should live and who should die. We believe in life, in life in abundance, in human flourishing in matters economic, scientific and cultural. We oppose the agenda of death, of forced abortion, euthanasia, and government ordered “do not treat” lists. We oppose the agenda of limiting progress and sharing poverty. With freedom, we believe, the future is unbounded. Let’s get on with it.

Dr. Thies is a professor of Economics at the Univ. of Shenandoah - Virginia and Senior Editor of Libertarian Republican.