"The GOP has changed. Under the influence of the neoconservatives, the GOP is becoming a Brownshirt party.
I am a constitutionalist, a civil libertarian who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the FIRST things to be defended, not the last to be defended or that can be pushed aside in the name of "national security." Without the Constitution and the civil liberties that it guarantees, there can be no security.
When it comes to the market economy, I am a realist. I understand that, compared to a nation of farmers and artisans, a market economy--especially under free trade, jobs offshoring globalism--subjects people to massive economic insecurity and requires a strong social safety net. The idea that Republicans are espousing that the social safety net can be sacrificed in the name of deficit reduction in order to pay for wars of hegemony is insane, inhumane, and evil."
Are you ready??
Paul Craig Roberts!
He was one of Ronald Reagan's original group and the main inventor or Reaganomics. I don't know about you but I find it scary that I'm agreeing with him, at least in this case. I, personally, hope the Republicans and the Democrats spontaneously immolate and weaken themselves to such an extent as to allow a strong third party to emerge in this country; and I'm NOT talking about a gathering of rabble like the Tea Party.
In any case, Dan Froomkin over a HuffPo wrote an interesting column on Roberts. You might want to migrate over there and give it a read.
Roibeard Padraig McBlather
The Gentleman Anarchist
Roibeard Padraig McBlather
The Gentleman Anarchist
