Protection and empowerment

“The role of progressive government is to maximize our freedom—and protection and empowerment do just that. Protection is there to guarantee freedom from harm, from want, from fear. Empowerment is there to maximize freedom to achieve your goals.”

– George Lakoff, The Political Mind, pages 47 and 48.

Notes:

(*) SEC, which Lakoff mentions in this passage as part of government empowerment: Securities and Exchange Commission, the US agency whose mission is to enforce the laws that regulate the securities industry in the United States. It is like our Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros (SVS) in Chile