An Intelligent Tea Partier on Dangers of Concentrated Power

[Dinyang]

Talk about equivocation.

[dmoneysk8s96]

This is pretty bad, arcade fire is great, reagan was a terrible president. Xtranormal is for little kids.

[peterfdrucker]

@dmoneysk8s96 Terrible, are you kidding? Iran-Contra, supporting murderous regimes in Central America, supporting Saddam Hussein, South Africa, funding Islamic Fundamentalists, paying tribute @ Bitburg to Nazi soldiers, who Reagan called victims like victims of the Holocaust, and who knows where to stop . . . I think "terrible" stops short, others words like "criminal" come to mind.

Not sure if you got overall sarcasm re: "magic" of the marketplace, which really is a fantasy for little kids

[dmoneysk8s96]

@peterfdrucker i understand that, i guess your message was a little unclear, but know i understand that you are not on the side of the tea party.

[peterfdrucker]

@dmoneysk8s96 Yeah, wow, I definitely suck at this. In my defense, the rhetoric coming out of the right is often so insane it is hard to know where or how to engage. Sorry about that.

Have you the YouTube thing on Skateistan? It's cool, look up "journeyman pictures skateistan" on YouTube or by internet search. Not that I would say Afghanistan needs skateboarding at this moment - but it's a nice project nonetheless.

[SecularNumanist]

Libertarians are against corporations, corporations are a result of big government.

A crap rebuttal with same mistake they all seem to make.

[peterfdrucker]

@SecularNumanist Hmm. Whatever you think the correct definition of "libertarian" is, there is a way of thinking and talking in the U.S. where folks claim to be for freedom, and against concentrated power, yet cheer on anything labeled "private" even if it is a giant bureaucratic communistic entity like the modern U.S. corporation. You are correct, though, what corporate law will be is a matter of choice; it must be maintained by force and propaganda. The "word" libertarian wasn't used, b/t/w.

[peterfdrucker]

Further, my observation is that many commentators are obsessed with the correct definition of terms like "libertarian", "conservative", "socialist", "fascist" and so on. What matters in the substance of folks' positions and values, whatever they call themselves. This video is directed toward people who are worried about "big government" but are ready to cede power to business organized in the corporate form. If you don't want to call these people libertarian, it hardly matters.