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.
Damn it, Gene! I start reading your article and I get sucked into two others: theofascist Gary North writing on labor unions and Ron Paul's lousy screed on the situation regarding Alfie in the UK (the court's decision was wrong and horrible, but Paul's article is dumb because it introduces a lot of nonsense that is just his fevered imagination).
ReplyDeleteAlso, your post already has the expected libertarian proclaiming taxes are theft, government is a monolithic substance, and so forth.