Georgian President Saakashvili, Welfare King
I explain here.
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.
"You have to have some swagger, for crying out loud. ... Not good.
ReplyDeleteSo we see that there is yet another problem with democracies. Because of their periodic elections, even relatively stable States such as the US temporarily lose their footing."
Bob, this seems a bit muddled.
You want Obama to have more swagger, why? To better scare off bad guys abroad, OR to better manipulate the American people into supporting huge diversions of wealth to friends in the defense industries?
And you suggest that democracies are more likely (than autocratic regimes?) to "lose their footing" (by supporting a waste of taxpayers' funds on defense? Sure we have a huge problem in the US that is noticeable worse over the Bush administration. But how can you with a straight face suggest that the problem is LESS under an autocratic regime, which would tolerate much less internal criticism to diversions of wealth used to keep themselves in power?
Bemoan our easily manipulated tribal instincts for hostility and chest-beating all you like, but please don't wish more of it, AND more autocracy as a cure, on us.