The Left’s Statocracy
November 25, 2010 6 Comments
Via Power and Control via Vodkapundit via Treacher, here’s lefty and Nation writer Mark Ames complaining that libertarians are “enemies of the state”.
Anytime anyone says anything libertarian, spit on them. Libertarians are by definition enemies of the state: they are against promoting American citizens’ general welfare and against policies that create a perfect union. Like Communists before them, they are actively subverting the Constitution and the American Dream, and replacing it with a Kleptocratic Nightmare.
Because as everyone knows the left loves “the state” and is all about smashing its “enemies”! So they must be “spit on”. Also, they are as bad as Communists.
I think we need some new sedition laws. We could revive the one passed under liberal Woodrow Wilson.
Fascists in The Nation. Who would have ever guessed?
To Mr. Ames,
I know you are, but what am I?
There is such a thing as subverting the Constitution. When a person advocates for the Constitution of another state to replace the existing Bill of Rights and Constitution of the United States, that is sedition.
Sound familiar?
Can you think of anyone in our world who is doing such a thing?
And of course, we all know that “The Nation” hated Communists, right?
“Like Communists before them, they are actively subverting the Constitution and the American Dream, and replacing it with a Kleptocratic Nightmare. ”
They are? I understand if you think they are in favor of actively subverting the Constitution (by some “interpretation” I guess) and such but are actually being effective at doing so?
What the hell has happened in this country in the last 50 years that can be reasonably described as moving in a libertarian direction?
I’m not particularly fond of libertarians but believing that libertarians actually have policy influence is frankly insane. An “influential” libertarian is someone like Megan McArdle, who is in favor of exactly everything that a progressive is but maybe has some doubts as to how well it will work out. A “wacko” libertarian is someone like Ron Paul who passes exactly 0 bills.
In other words, how much influence you have as a libertarian pretty much exactly corresponds with how little substance that label has.
The Nation invoking the specter of communism… my, that’s richer than Mom’s turkey gravy. Don’t those guys still have a hard-on for Cuba?
And Steve Johnson is right — I’d love to know who exactly this Mark Ames cat considers a prominent libertarian. From what I’ve seen of Megan McArdle, she’s just a run-of-the-mill liberal who can do a little bit of math. She voted for Glorious Leader, for God’s sweet sake! And if you discount her and Ron Paul (who is less “libertarian” and more “batshit insane”), the only libertarians I personally know of are those dudes who hang around the college quad with petitions… and as Jonah Goldberg (I think) pointed out, “Weed, man! Weeeeeed!” is not a viable political philosophy.
If this is the same Mark Ames who used to run “The Exile” in Moscow, he’s a two-bit Comsymp hack who wouldn’t know a decent policy if one came up and bit him on the ass, libertarian or not. The Russians finally got fed up with he and Tabbai, and booted them out, and their drug-fueled antics probably actually damaged U.S.-Russian relations. If today, the Russian think that Americans are a bunch of decadent, sex-crazed, drug-addicted politically naive juvenile nitwits, guys like Ames and Tabbai are at least partially responsible…Who cares what this guy thinks about libertarians or anything else, except possible where to find really cheap Chuvash hookers?