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There’s only one person who agrees with me on everything, and, as I’m not running for office, that person is not on the ballot.
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December 20, 2011 at 5:53 pm
The bopping bit of music background was perfect. Paul’s a bit different than the others in that he’s the truest example of an extreme libertarianism. As that he has a solid very minority base of equal-minded nuts, many of them young. Which is quite different, it seems to me, than the other GOP clown nominees. They are intensely loyal, fanatically so. And they make folk songs for him. I remember running across a brace of them on YouTube a couple months ago, tunes played at rallies, extolling the virtual of gold and silver cash money, and cursing the fed for printing all that extra fiat stuff. If you were doing stuff for satire you could not, in your wildest imagination or exaggeration, come up with stuff as good, ultimately because you’d lack the unselfconscious commitment of the true believer. I wish I had saved the links. Or maybe not.
December 20, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Just so you know I’m not making this up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSvKWVp-kY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ZOggr9s18
December 20, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Libertarianism is an elegant and simple theory which explains political behavior in much the same way as phlogiston explains combustion.