It's hard out here for a libertarian
Lindsey:
It's easier for folks who want to expand government power. In addition to principle, they have a concrete payout - jobs to be created, regulations to be imposed, enemies to be burdened. In today's environment of easy money, the forces against have lost their only tangible weapon and now have only principle making it all but impossible to continue to raise the troops to thrust unto the breech.
Forget about walking the walk; almost nobody even talks our talk in the political arena anymore. The limited-government rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the bold plans by the congressional class of 1994 to eliminate whole Cabinet departments – all that is just a distant memory. You know things are bad for libertarians when we begin to experience Clinton nostalgia – but can you imagine a current leader in Congress, or a serious presidential candidate for 2008, actually saying today that “the era of big government is over”?
It's easier for folks who want to expand government power. In addition to principle, they have a concrete payout - jobs to be created, regulations to be imposed, enemies to be burdened. In today's environment of easy money, the forces against have lost their only tangible weapon and now have only principle making it all but impossible to continue to raise the troops to thrust unto the breech.
Posted by Cool Papa Boyd on
March 9, 2007