From: David H Dennis <david@amazing.com> able to jump over 50 Libertarians in a single bound, able to out-flame 5 or so Libertarians in a single thread is more accurate.
Don't break your arm.
Here's a quick political lesson: Being a Liberal in the US means very roughly ONLY that one believes that the government has some role to play in moderating the excesses of the market. It does not
That may be what they *SAY*, based on what they *DO*, what they are for is taking from the productive members of society, and giving to the unproductive. (or rather taking from the financially productive, and giving to the financially unproductive.).
particularly *make* you a civil-libertarian. However, because Liberals think about general social power and the abuse of it, they are very
Liberals usually don't think much. They are too busy "feeling" and playing with their crystals.
It also helps that Liberals are *predominantly* drawn from ranks of those who are the targets of both public and private abuses. So they often both favor government action against business
Really? I wasn't aware that the Kennedys were/are targets of public and private abuses. Nor are the Clintons (exepct they are from Arkansas), nor most _current_ union members, including their leadership. etc.
Corollary 1: Detonating a nuclear device in DC will not solve this problem. The surviving government will just have a very good excuse for crypto-controls.
We got plenty of nukes, and if we feel those are too dirty (I don't think one or two would matter, but any more than that and things might get a little nasty) we could always descalate (or whatever the opposite of escalate is) to small arms or conventional explosives.
Corollary 2: Repeated Libertarian rantings won't solve it either.
No, but it might get one or two people to stop fingering their crystals/genitals long enough to realize that big monololitihc governments do not now and never have provided protection for the individual. The protections of individuals, whether that be civil-liberty type protections, or protections against other evils is always more effective the closer it gets to home. When neighbors work together, theives have a real hard time. (the only time when Big Government tends to protect one better than the city/neighborhood is in times of war, but if there weren't any big governments, there wouldn't be any big wars...).