Amazing, isn't it? What with all the conflation of Liberalism with Socialism, Communism and Fascism...
We have a Democratic president again--as well as a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. If this means anything at all, I don't know. If I've learned anything at all about American governance in my 34.999 years on this planet, it's that very few people know what Liberalism is anymore--sometimes even people who accept the label don't know. If I haven't removed the links on the right side of the screen (I'm not going to check--I've been away from this thing so long I've forgotten how Blogger works), I think there's a link to the full text of the US Constitution--the most radically Liberal document of its kind. Until the 18th Amendment broke the streak. We recovered our sanity, thankfully.
Now--can someone explain to me what a Libertarian is and why their name makes my skin crawl? I know Penn and Teller are Libertarians, and I feel safe with them around, but the Cato Institute they belong to was chaired by none other than Rupert Murdoch at one point*. And to answer their question about why Liberals "hate" (my word is "distrust", but I'll grumble and fall silent...) Wal-Mart; Two words: Vlassic Pickles. Look that up, too. Wal-Marts aren't the life-giving, spectral class G2V stars in the Retail Galaxy--they're the space-time crushing singularities! (But man have they got some good deals, don't they?)
*Not! He was only on its board of directors! What did I tell you about my research?
posted by David Aaron at 7:50 PM
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A Libertarian (economic) is a conservative who's so embarrassed to be willing to let the children of the poor go naked and hungry that he has concocted a bullshit rationalization (the perfection of the "free" market) for why any other condition for their hungry naked asses would actually be worse. Theoretically. If you listen to raving lunatic assholes like Ayn Rand and Phil Gramm.
Ah David...so nice to see you writing again too!
Now, about "feeling safe" around Penn & Teller...WTF?
LOL! I dunno my friend. It scares me when people describe themselves as feeling safe around Penn & Teller.
The Libertarian thing, I can't help you with. But I do agree with you on the Walmart space-time crushing singularity. Good deals or not, the pickle thing is very, very scary!
Welcome Back.
Ahem. I KNOW for a fact that I left a comment here about pickles and Wal-Mart sometime last week.
And now I'm having a WTF? moment!
Nice to see you posting again too David.
Lovable and Pua!
Thanks for stopping by, and for the reitiration and the definitely biased (but I consider perfectly acceptable!) definition.
Lovable--what you said actuall puts to words what was only a sensation in the back of my head! Libertarian=Bullshit rationalizer. A group with reasoning that convoluted is trying to hide something from itself. (There's a statement I've read from a self-professed libertarian..."I didn't know people like you were allowed on the internet." I fail to see the liberty in that sentiment.)
Pua: Sorry about the comment. I have been moderating them for a while...and if you forget to check your email like I do, you don't notice comments needing to be cleared. My bad!
Here's my rationalization for what I said about the Illusionists!:
I feel safe with Penn and Teller for several reasons. 1) They're usually in Las Vegas, Nevada and I'm always in Lexington, Kentucky. 2) They admit that they have biases (even though they never specify what they are--and I know there's some sort of tie between Penn Jillette and the Exxon Corporation.) 3) They seem more likely to admit to their own bullshit. (Of course, I'll have to point out that it's easy to hide one's own bullshit while pointing out someone else's! Smoke and mirrors, so to speak--and we know those guys are accustomed to working in smoke and mirrors!)
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