I'm troubled by the suggestion that we can make a conscious decision about what kind of society we want. First, pragmatically: the work of Friedrich Hayek show

I'm troubled by the suggestion that we can make a conscious decision about what kind of society we want. First, pragmatically: the work of Friedrich Hayek shows that it's quite impossible for any top-down control mechanism to manage this stuff properly. Second, philosophically: given the foundation that America is supposed to build on, I don't see how any group of people has the right to actively force a structure of society onto the others.