Showing posts with label Economic concerns drive political action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic concerns drive political action. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2021

On insurrection

What is missing, in all of the televised opinion I have seen, is analysis that says the insurrectionists have some legitimate complaints, though the expression of these may have been misdirected by "stop the steal". 

As Hayek says, people never have economic motives. You don't go and invade the Capitol because the economy sucks. You go under a bold political banner.

However, it is only when the troubled economy becomes the foremost underlying concern that insurrection becomes likely.