Guys… the anti-Ron Paul stuff is getting pretty… um, histrionic again. Reading through some of these things on the net makes me feel like walking through a room full of bees in a hot summer night, drunk.

They’re saying he’s racist. His supporters spam. He hates Jews. He’s a socialist (ignoranceisstrengthihategoldstein)!!!!!!

Um… *whistles* Uh, Hot damn!. This is the most Left I’ve seen the GOP since, well, the Left was more Left than the GOP.

I just really, really want somebody to just rhetorically hammer some of the stuff LittleGreenFootballs and the like produce. There’s atleast 40 different repetitive, “damning exposes/conspiracies/IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE LOOK HOW LONG THE POST IS IT MUST BE IRREFUTABLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN IT FOR FIVE MINUTES” type posts on something Ron Paul has done.

Which is it, African or American?

Tory, it is mighty funny that you denounce forcing people to adopt capitalism and then speak highly of the forced transformation of the southern economy.

You can do no such thing. The only problem is when the theories are poorly thought out and logically inconsistent and not subjected to improvement. A lot of economic theory suffers from this.

If you theorize economics too much – if you search for a magical economical cure and convince people you have found one then you may inadvertantly create more central planning. Are you for freedom more than you are for forcing others to adopt pure capitalism ?

You will force us to start all over again and repeat the same mistakes we made in the beginning.

De-centralized sovereignty is as bad and detrimental to freedom as is excessive central control. The states refused to give up slavery – three amendments had to be added to the Bill of Rights to protect African/Americans against the advocates of a slave based economy.

Hamiltonian

In the title poem, Jefferson wrote

That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historic republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.

This is the same man who wrote, in another poem,

All Europe was hardly worth the precarious freedom
Of one of our states. What will her ashes fetch?

This volume has been almost entirely forgotten, and can be found only in a few university libraries. But it’s one that libertarians should be aware of. Jeffers was an intelligent man and his political sympathies were almost entirely along libertarian lines, however strange the metaphysic they grew out of, which Jeffers called “inhumanism” and which is like nothing so much as H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmic nihilism (but, happily, Jeffers did not share Lovecraft’s fascist tendencies).

The writer of the piece portrayed this as empty (though clever) propaganda, and I’m sure many readers were angered by it. I wonder how many readers reacted as I did — “Yep, that’s a very apt comparison.”