Being run by ideologues is the greatest danger facing the United States, writes Stewart Walz.
Gov. Spencer Cox delivers his 2022 State of the State address to all Utahns, House and Senate members, Utah Supreme Court Justices, State Auditor, State Treasurer and Utah Attorney General at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022.Gov. Spencer Cox’s said in histhat the United States is the last best hope of the world and Utah is the last best hope of the United States. Let us consider the second half of that statement.
If Utah is to be an example for other states, let its government start making decisions on facts rather that ideology, or more specifically, names. Shakespeare got it right when, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.” Why, then, has Stewart never advocated eliminating that great bastion of socialism perpetuated by the state of Utah, Utah Liquor Stores? Here the state has a socialist monopoly on the sale of wine and hard liquor. About 80 miles east and 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, capitalism in the liquor sales flourishes, yet it is against the law for someone to patronize the capitalists if he wants to bring their product back to his home in Utah.
Was he right? Sometimes he was, if you consider, for example, the actions of the rapacious capitalists over 100 years ago. Yet, there are countless examples of Keynes being wrong, where capitalism has spurred great advances that benefit society. Is socialism always bad? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Gun violence continues to rage here and elsewhere, yet the Legislature continually does nothing to curb it because of its unthinking obsession with Second Amendment ideology.
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