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"Jason, When Did You Turn Into A Freeper?"
So asks a reader, via email.
I'll give an answer, and then ask a question of my own.
I'm not a freeper. I can't remember ever logging into the Free Republic website, other than maybe following a link someone else sent me. Maybe. But I can't even remember doing that.
As hard as it may be for some people to swallow, I think independently. And so do a lot of other people who come to inconvenient conclusions.
I link to The Nation a lot more than I link to the Free Republic or National Review, simply because I read The Nation.
If The Nation and the rest of the left can't convince me of their arguments, it ain't the Free Republic's doing. I don't bother reading them at all. The problem is stupidity on the left.
Here's my own question:
When did the left start assuming that everyone who disagreed with them was "A Freeper?"
Nevertheless, in fairness, here's the rest of my critic's email:
Now, I'm not an anarchist. Nor am I a libertarian. I see Democratic vs. Republican fiscal policy as simply two children wrestling over who gets to sit on the top part of the Phillips curve.
With the economy firmly in expantion mode, I'm not even particularly opposed to some countercyclical tax increases in order to pay off the national debt. I think there's a reasonable case to be made for that.
That just strikes me as good Keynesian economics.
But that's not the argument Hillary made.
Instead, Hillary made the single argument most likely to lose the midwest.
She'll be quoted on it til the cows come home to roost.
You think Al Gore's Internet statement was an albatross around his neck? This is going to hang on Hillary like a piano anklet.
But then again, the argument worked so well for Mondale, right?
Splash, out
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P.S. How did my salary get paid in the military? Through deficit spending! Duh! :)
I'll give an answer, and then ask a question of my own.
I'm not a freeper. I can't remember ever logging into the Free Republic website, other than maybe following a link someone else sent me. Maybe. But I can't even remember doing that.
As hard as it may be for some people to swallow, I think independently. And so do a lot of other people who come to inconvenient conclusions.
I link to The Nation a lot more than I link to the Free Republic or National Review, simply because I read The Nation.
If The Nation and the rest of the left can't convince me of their arguments, it ain't the Free Republic's doing. I don't bother reading them at all. The problem is stupidity on the left.
Here's my own question:
When did the left start assuming that everyone who disagreed with them was "A Freeper?"
Nevertheless, in fairness, here's the rest of my critic's email:
Your blog used to be an
interesting, thought-provoking series of essays on the military and on Iraq,
one that had this liberal military brat sometimes agreeing, sometimes
disagreeing, but always considering. Now it seems you've degenerated into
another generic right-wing blog, busy with Democrat-bashing and cheerleading
for Bush (in my opinion the worst thing to happen to the military in a
quarter-century, but I digress....)
How do you think your salary got paid in the military? Hint: Dubya didn't
actually dip into his personal fortune out of love for the troops. Instead,
the military is paid through taxes-- a perfect example of the government's
power and Constitutional duty to "take things away from you on behalf of the
common good."
That's what a government DOES, see? You can certainly argue that your idea
of the common good is not Senator Clinton's idea; you can argue that the
things being taking away are not producing a proportional outlay of common
good, or that they're taking too many things away, or that they're
over-thing-taking from from some and not enough from others. But the
fundamental principle-- that government takes things away from people for
the common good-- is not open to debate, and to act as if it were is
intellectually bankrupt. You were better than that once.
Now, I'm not an anarchist. Nor am I a libertarian. I see Democratic vs. Republican fiscal policy as simply two children wrestling over who gets to sit on the top part of the Phillips curve.
With the economy firmly in expantion mode, I'm not even particularly opposed to some countercyclical tax increases in order to pay off the national debt. I think there's a reasonable case to be made for that.
That just strikes me as good Keynesian economics.
But that's not the argument Hillary made.
Instead, Hillary made the single argument most likely to lose the midwest.
She'll be quoted on it til the cows come home to roost.
You think Al Gore's Internet statement was an albatross around his neck? This is going to hang on Hillary like a piano anklet.
But then again, the argument worked so well for Mondale, right?
Splash, out
Jason
P.S. How did my salary get paid in the military? Through deficit spending! Duh! :)
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