Monthly Archives: November 2008

Ever since the advent of representative government…

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Ever since the advent of representative government placed the ultimate power to direct the administration of public affairs in the hands of the people, the primary instrument by which the few have managed to plunder the many has been the sophistry that persuades the victims that they are being robbed for their own benefit. The public has been despoiled of a great part of its wealth and has been induced to give up more and more of its freedom of choice because it is unable to detect the error in the delusive sophisms by which protectionist demagogues, national socialists, and proponents of government planning exploit its gullibility and its ignorance of economics. —Arthur Goddard, from the preface to Frederic Bastiat’s Economic Sophisms.

Robert F. Kennedy for EPA head?

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Enter this bit of data for whether Obama will govern centrist or hard left.  He’s seriously considering Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for the cabinet position of head of the EPA.  RFK has said that people who disagree with his line on global warming are traitors and should be treated as such (see also here). Furthermore, if Salon has to refute your anti-Bush conspiracy theory, I’m not sure you can rationally be called a centrist.  Then there’s this Judgment Day prophecy that I’m not really sure how to describe.

 

God does love to mock

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Everyone needs to give thanks to Obama for getting out the African American vote in California and thus getting Proposition 8 to pass.  If it had been up to Whites, the attempt to protect marriage from “fundamental transformation” would have failed.

In fact, homosexual marriage doesn’t seem to have a red state/blue state divide.  It just fails.

I honestly couldn’t tell you why.  I don’t know the future.  But I’m not going to let that keep me from seeing some humor in the situation.

Wavering from my path

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What path you ask?

1988: I am old enough to vote for President in the national election.  I vote for Ron Paul.  Don’t want any part in the Bush Abdication (the only way to characterize his administration in the wake of the Reagan Revolution).

1992: Who cares?  Don’t bother to vote.

1996: Again.

2000: Actually kind of cared about this one since I thought W’s Texas governorship meant he was more of a conservative than his father (I also thought the word, “conservative” entailed a commitment to reduced government).  Somehow, I just couldn’t bother, though.  I did get worked up during the “chad” struggle in FL.  That I regret.

2004: Now I know Bush is evil but the Dems are just as bad (as all the ways they have supported Bush since 2006 prove).  Better things to do in life than feel forced to participate in this sort of choice (language warning).

Now it is 2008, and the Presidential candidate for the GOP is someone I’ve always known I could never vote for.  But everything has changed.  Gotta vote against “The One” and the hard left supermajority.  I am ruled by fear.

Of course, it is always possible that a hard left supermajority would be better for the country in the long run.  Maybe the Dems will self-destruct just like the Republicans have done.  Maybe Palin should go back to Alaska as governor and switch to the Independence Party so that she can protect refugees from the lower 48.  Who knows?

But I’m voting in this one.  Energetically.