-- Tim May:
And, as many have noted, very few of the "kids" today are libertarians (either small L or large L).
James A. Donald:
When you were a teenager, everyone thought that Ho Chi Minh was the greatest, had a picture of Che Guevera on their wall, and thought the Soviet Union was going to win.
Tim May
Nonsense. "Everyone" did not think this. Far from it. YAF was going strong back then.
Well, not everyone, but that was surely the way the wind was blowing. The Che Guevera poster symbolizes that era. In "austin powers", they make the spy sound sixties by depicting him as expecting the victory of the Soviet Union, and perhaps rather favoring that outcome. If they had him quote Ayn Rand, he would not have sounded sixties. When the mass media want to cash in on nostalgia for the sixties and early seventies, it is the young commies they remember.
Still think most of the baldies of today, with rings through their noses, marching against Coca Cola and Intel and Big Business, and arguing for affirmative action are "more libertarian"?
Go to the mall: observe the mall rats. See any baldies or nose rings? (Come to think of it, you probably would, but I do not.) Nip down to that park in San Jose where all the young people get their drugs. See any baldies or nose rings? You are further out of it than Doonesbury. The leadership of the Death-to-coca-cola crowd are old farts. These days Chomsky needs an interpeter. The could-pass-as-young pinko activists of the sixties are still in the business as old fart pinko activists of today. And if the same is true of the libertarian party, well it has been walking dead for some considerable time, but its death does not reflect the health of libertarianism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kHn9sx1THFU+pOMZQFj1k0jU7RnUtA877TClsJYB 4KSl9qDarOhEujymWANpT3Le2YbPsr5NOMfIblUzm