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d.eris comments on The Sarah Palin decision

d.eris — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:27 +0000

"Palin and her handlers are making a move outside politcs, the two-party system."

This sounds about right to me. She basically stated as much in her remarks yesterday. The fact that so many people seem unable to draw this simple conclusion demonstrates the extent to which they are stuck in the mindset of the duopolist ideologue.

Jay Chambers comments on The Sarah Palin decision

Jay Chambers — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:21:36 +0000

Great post in every way possible. I hope you're right. And I do think she is going to need to bone up on stuff like foreign policy, etc. She's got the intellectual capacity to take on these issues. But being able to spar more effectively with the likes of Joe Biden, i.e., to not let him make stuff up randomly and without consequence, is necessary for any political future.

Mike Farmer comments on Sarah Palin's direct campaign

Mike Farmer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:45:56 +0000

I'll write something else to kind of clarify what I think's happening.

Jay Chambers comments on Sarah Palin's direct campaign

Jay Chambers — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:17:37 +0000

You're more optimistic than I. I just guess that she chose her family over the governorship and a psychologically destroyed family. I told a friend eariler, someone could do a book on Republicans who have had their lives destroyed, absolutely destroyed, by the left in America. Justice Thomas and Gov Palin come to mind.

Mike Farmer comments on Trade wars of the future

Mike Farmer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:45:55 +0000

I'm hoping people are getting very, very sick of it. -- thanks.

Jay Chambers comments on Trade wars of the future

Jay Chambers — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:41:30 +0000

You know, with all the bullshit appeals to this and that victim group (or potential victim group), you have to wonder how long it's going to last in political competition to people whose lives have really been destroyed by Bush-Obama Big Government policies over (just to start...) the last 12 months alone.

That type of "for the children" idiocy worked when everyone was living the high life and people could happily and innocently vote in another $150 million school referendum every third year so the local teaching faculty could all get new catalacs, but now that total (U6) unemployment is 17% and climbing in this county, fewer people are buying the "woe is X group" when they can't get a job but hear every month that government wages and employment are spiking, all at the expense of their own well-being.

Mike Farmer comments on Libertarian capitalism

Mike Farmer — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:28:55 +0000

Thanks, Francis -- hopefully we can get a handle on it before it gets too out of hand.

Francis W. Porretto comments on Libertarian capitalism

Francis W. Porretto — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:30:24 +0000

The arrangement of which the first commenter spoke is usually called crony capitalism. It's been observed in many Latin American countries, and in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos, among other places. Favored companies protect the political elite, while the political elite shelter the favored companies from upstart competition. The resemblances to Mussolini's and Hitler's fascisms are pervasive and strong.

Interestingly, the political affiliation we call conservatism has no equivalent in such countries. The principal aim of the elite in such a system is to keep a healthful distance between themselves and the peasants -- what Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein characterized as "the walled hacienda on the hill." That wall is typically manned by armed guards, permanently authorized to shoot to kill -- for the lord of the manor is fully confident that there need be no unpleasantnesses with the federales over a corpse or two.

Mike Farmer comments on Libertarian capitalism

Mike Farmer — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:52:06 +0000

Sounds like a good name to me. It is all part of the power game, it seems. I no longer believe that a two party system is inevitable in America. I envision the rise of at least a third party.

d.eris comments on Libertarian capitalism

d.eris — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:56:11 +0000

"Anytime businesses and government can collude to limit competition, then the economic system is something other than capitalism." Indeed. Your point here is that business and government collude to limit economic competition. But what do we call it when business and government collude to limit political competition, as in our own case, to two ruling parties? Bipoligarchy.