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.
Strawmen, I say. The proper attack against voting is more penetrating then the sophistry of economists: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-does-it-mean-to-say-i-am-against.html
ReplyDeleteI assume he just convinced himself that his blog post was true, even though it was patently false. But it was rational for him to write it, after convincing himself that false was true.
ReplyDelete(See what I did there?)