THE world, especially American Democrats, ponders the question: Where might the party go in the immediate years ahead? The political reality seeps into the mind, that liberalism’s next step is not obvious. Dogmatic socialization doesn’t widely appeal. The obvious social-economic targets are education and medicine. The public sector already pays an enormous part of the cost of higher education. As for medicine, the Democrats would like to make it free, but are estopped by the crystallizing public realization that benefits that are universally used are universally paid for, like Social Security. Free liver pills end up showing their face on the ledgers of everyone.
What then might the Democrats do? I acknowledge the recommendations of columnist E. J. Dionne, because they are commendable, but for other reasons also, which will be revealed.
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