Posted on 10/21/2004 12:51:49 AM PDT by neverdem
Here is his obligatory email address
rbailey@reason.com
Just sent him an email discussing my thoughts on this article. Thought someone else might want give him a piece of their mind, though not much, this guy can't "reason" that well, as the article deftly shows.
Cathy Young routinely criticizes feminism, at least lately, especially the "sacred truth" that virtually all domestic violence is by men and all victims are women.
The vast majority of big 'L' Libertarians believe in the Second Amendment as well, such that NRA Voter Guides for years have included the comment in the column with the heading, "Here's What the Ratings Mean:". At the bottom of the column it states, "NRA members should be aware that Libertarian candidates as a rule are pro-gun". Show me some socialists that believe the Second Amendment protects the right of the individual to own guns.
Thanks for the links, but what makes you think I don't know enough about hard core lefties like Mao, Lenin and Friedan? They all thought society needed transformation. Most libertarians are very individualistic and cherish individual rights, property rights and small government.
Libertarian individuals, like feminists, claim to be in favor of or against just about anything when it suits their arguements. But they do have one Official Platform.
National Platform of the Libertarian Party
http://lp.org/issues/platform/preamble.html#toc
And run
"outright libertarians"
(quotes and all) as a phrase at google.com
Thanks for the link, but if the two major parties were the pubbies and the Libertarians, I would probably vote for the Libertarian. It's not that I agree with all of their platform. Some ideas are looney and would never be enacted. But I like their ideas limiting authoritarian government of any kind. It's just that the dems prevent me from throwing my vote away.
These people are deadly serious. Any deviation from their "liberal" ideas is prima facie evidence of you-know-what.
See: Theodore Adorno "The Authoritarian Personality"
Basically, what happened during the Weimar period in Germany, the fascists kicked out a bunch of far left wack jobs who emigrated to the US and set up shop at major universities. They decided that the US was too "authoritarian" with deep respect for police, religion, family, etc, the hallmarks of the Nazis. I'm not making this up.
The above is an NIH-funded study, btw: your tax dollars at work... It begins with a quote from George F. Will, who is patently in need of some psychological assistance...or maybe some reeducation.
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