If You’ve Ever Wondered…
By Mitch Berg
…why the Libertarian party is forever doomed to be a fringe player, read this article.
More, probably, next week.
11 Responses to “If You’ve Ever Wondered…”
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January 30th, 2015 at 9:29 am
I think Austrian economics principles are a better way to think about this stuff.
Richard Epstein is the one that gets this stuff comprehensively right.
January 30th, 2015 at 10:26 am
Despicable.
You can be an opponent of the Iraq War for principled, conservative reasons. This is America-hating, military-hating bullshit.
January 30th, 2015 at 10:35 am
I couldn’t tell if Sheldon (I REALLY feel the juvenile urge to call him “Shelly” in the same patronizing way that Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s mother addresses Sheldon on “The Big Bang Theory”) was a libertarian or a fringe green party nutzoid.
January 30th, 2015 at 11:12 am
You can be an opponent of the Iraq War for principled, conservative reasons. This is America-hating, military-hating bullshit.
Sometime at around when Nick Gillespie took over, Reason Magazine went from essential reading to a periodical that would be useful only if came printed on two-ply.
January 30th, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Thorleywinston, I believe that Gillespie and the other editors at Reason, purposely changed the magazine to be more “edgy” and less “Republican-lite”. From what I’ve read, the Reason foundation’s biggest donors are pornographers and drug-legalization fanatics. It shows.
January 30th, 2015 at 12:58 pm
I believe you’re correct about that and coincidentally they’ve had less influence on public policy than as of late. It used to be that groups like the Reason Foundation where were a lot of up and coming lawmakers looked to for issues like deregulation, transportation reform, health care reform, etc. but by deciding the most important things to focus on were the prurient rather than bread and butter issues, they’re not being taken as seriously as they used to IMO.
January 30th, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Beyond the bizarre characterization of the conflict in Iraq, ignoring the reality that Kyle was shooting terrorists with Al-Qaida and such, there is the reality that the author ignores the fact that the heroes of history–Achilles, Ajax, Hildebrand, Moses, Samson, David, and the like–were not perfect human beings, but rather flawed men who rose to the occasion.
I, too, tend to the Austrian explanation of economics, but cringe when the anarcho-capitalists start writing about military policies as if Hitler had never invaded officially “neutral” nations like Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Norway, and as if Communists had never invaded or started revolutions in peaceful lands.
January 30th, 2015 at 2:44 pm
I feel dumber for having read this. Insert the happy Gilmore ultimate insult you tube clip here
January 30th, 2015 at 2:45 pm
By this I mean reason.Com article not mitch’s post
January 31st, 2015 at 6:17 am
The function of a sniper rather seems to be a necessary evil in a war so it’s hard to blame Chris Kyle for that. The armchair soldiers at home glorifying this gruesome task are a whole other issue, though.
February 2nd, 2015 at 11:05 am
“…a necessary evil in a war…”
Let us take a moment to ponder the colossal vapidity it takes to come up with that sentence. Then, let us join Emery in thanking the inventors of velcro, without whom dim wits everywhere would be still walking around barefoot.