While Democracy Burns

 

Cynicism and the Struggle to Save Democracy

It's Not Left vs. Right Anymore

 

When Does Fascism Begin?

 

Traitor Joe

 

George Takei on "Cancel Culture"

 

Fascism v Democracy

Why Do Republicans Lie So Much More Than Democrats?

 The reason Democrats don't lie as much as Republicans is because they don't have to. In general, they want a more pluralistic America, a better regulated economy, a better safety net, and a more progressive taxation system.

They want what they want, and the rest is just agreeing on the details and how to sell it/explain it/argue for it. No lies needed. Ever.

Republicans, on the other hand, want a white ethno-state with a fascist government, run by an oligarchy, like they have in Russia and other "banana republics."

You can't sell that crap to decent humans, so they have to lie, lie, lie.

Democracy Isn't Dying in Darkness

Quote by Prof. Noah Feldman

Be the America Hong Kong Thinks You Are

The Case is Clear

The case for liberty has never been more clear. There are now about a hundred countries that are (true, flawed, and hybrid) democracies with (overly) regulated capitalist economies with safety nets. Actual socialism is a dead issue. The new game is social democracy.


Are these countries perfect? No. Are they better than what they had a century ago, or even fifty years ago? Heck, yeah.

Each one of these countries -- from New Zealand, to Denmark, to Singapore and Hong Kong -- each place makes a separate case for economic and personal liberty, and the more deeply we look at each one, the more we see that it does.


I think it behooves us to study these places, and learn from their failures and successes. Libertarians have the ability to go beyond left and right here, and look at actual liberty in these places, so we can make our case to Americans even more. The world has changed, and the facts are with us.

https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2017

Penn Jillette on Democracy

Great Freemasons: Edmund Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813)

The general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils, to their origin, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy."
Edmund Randolph in describing the purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.

"The Senate will be more likely to corrupt than the House of Representatives, and should therefore have less to do with money matters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Randolph

(Grandmaster of the Virginias)