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Ten Counter-Theses on New Class Ideology: Yet Another Reply to Rich Johnstone

1. Unbridled Localism vs. Unbridled Universalism.

Johnstone is frightened by "unbridled localism," i.e., populism, as presumably something undesirable. But what does the "unbridled" qualifier add to localism besides indicating the presence of real freedom in a political community defining itself through particular values, laws, and customs? Freedom cannot be "bridled" or else it ceases to be freedom. A "bridled" localism would be deprived of any free choice concerning fundamental values and, consequently, would no longer be a democratic "localism." Its defining features would have to come from whomever or whatever does the bridling, thus reducing localism to a subsidiary part...