Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
That was clever, but I probably would vote Republican if they would really do that stuff. (Abolish EPA, keep hands off businesses, allow drilling for oil in "public" land, etc.)
ReplyDeleteOf course I'm not talking about federal efforts to restrict abortion or define marriage, but most of the stuff I liked.
The clip makes it very clear that Liberty is not too important for either of the two major parties.
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