Tucker Carlson Serves Up Warmed Over Socialism

Tucker Carlson speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Fox political talking-head Tucker Carlson threw a fit on TV in his first monologue of the new year. He introduced Mitt Romney’s editorial to launch his bid to replace President Trump as the GOP nominee in 2020, but only so that he can attack Romney as representative of the world’s insensitive leaders who have failed to make us happy. Along the way he rounds up the evils of pay day lenders, marijuana, banking, taxes, corporations, failing families and environmentalism, blaming all of them on Romney and free markets.
Somewhere in the middle Carlson states, “The goal for America is both simpler and more elusive than mere prosperity. It’s happiness. There are a lot of ingredients in being happy: Dignity. Purpose. Self-control. Independence. Above all, deep relationships with other people. Those are the things you want for your children. They’re what our leaders should want for us, and would want if they cared.”
Carlson misses the most important point about happiness – it’s founded on expectations. People can choose to be happy by making their expectations fit their reality, that is, be content with what you have. Most poor Christians in Africa are happy. We don’t need the government to make us happy.
But is the main goal of government to make us happy? A lot of happiness “research” implies that, but few political philosophers have made that point. Thomas Jefferson mentioned in the Declaration of Independence that we have a right to pursue happiness, but the reason for the new republic had something to do with freedom from tyranny as I recall.
Originally published on Townhall Finance.
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