{"id":3147,"date":"2021-12-10T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:14:25","slug":"the-politics-of-competence-joshua-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2021\/12\/10\/the-politics-of-competence-joshua-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>An Interview with Joshua Mitchell<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the book I suggest two alternatives for America going forward. To state the case in its strongest form, we can either continue to be transfixed by what I call \u201cthe politics of innocence and transgression\u201d or we can re-adopt what I call \u201cthe liberal politics of competence.\u201d These are two different regimes types. They will produce two different kinds of America. The so-called \u201ctransformation of America,\u201d begun during the Obama administration and now proceeding with lightning speed in the Biden administration, is transfixed on turning America into a nation attentive only to innocent victims and to disenfranchising\u2014or cancelling, really\u2014the transgressors. The former are the so-called voiceless ones, who now alone have the right to speak; the latter have been heard from enough and must now be silent. No decent liberal nation can be built on the politics of innocence and transgression. Nor can we build a nation that works on that sort of politics. If we want a nation that is both decent and that works, we must develop a nation of competent citizens, capable of building a world together, in their neighborhoods, local communities, schools, churches, and jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Joshua Mitchell\u00a0is a senior fellow at\u00a0Common Sense Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-politics-of-competence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No decent liberal nation can be built on the politics of innocence and transgression.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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