[ExI] Who are the "leftists"?

[Tomaz Kristan]

> Give me a link to the best one, I am curious.

http://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/why-do-intellectuals-oppose-capitalism

This one.


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:39 AM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

>
> >... On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
> ...
>
> >...### Hey, this is a very vague statement - depressive because it's so
> far
> left or depressive because there may not be a more leftist one
> coming?...Because of all that, it is not only unsurprising but rather
> completely inevitable that the administration using more traditionally
> leftist rhetoric ends up being even more authoritarian than their junior
> partners in the scam (the Republicams, in case you don't get my drift).
> 99.9% of government employees are unelected, and most of them are
> culturally
> leftist but in practice conventionally power-grabby hacks, just like their
> spiritual predecessors since ancient Babylon's first clerics. You let them
> work with a few elected, arrogant, narcissistic, hypocritical social
> strivers steeped in commie rhetoric, and the sky is the limit (at least as
> far as the budget deficit goes)....Rafal
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> EXCELLENT post Rafal, me lad.  I don't have any problem with the fed being
> leftist, so long as it stays within the strict constraints of the
> constitution, something it has not wanted to do for a long time.  The
> constitution describes a federal government that doesn't really do much
> other than military, some infrastructure such as interstate highways, and
> so
> on, but not very so far on.  The founders had in mind the real political
> power at the state level, so we have a number of competing states.
>  Everyone
> gets to choose their favorite form of government, everyone wins.
>
> spike
>
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