In this Cato Institute speech honoring Milton Friedman, George Will says that we aren’t.
It’s a terrific speech, but the reason for all the turmoil in the country over the last several years (actually much longer) is that there is a large segment of the population that is entirely “state-broken” — people who look to government to give them what they want and solve all the problems they perceive. Those people, exemplified by the likes of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, and so many others, just won’t leave the unbroken alone. They insist on not only taking away what is left of the liberty and property of those who prefer freedom, but wish to destroy their spirit by calling them nasty names and silencing their unwanted dissent from the statist orthodoxy.
