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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
    More of the Milton Friedman school than Austrian school - so that goes against him (although I can accept Friedman over Keynes any day).
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 10 months ago
    A really interesting take on the impact of AR on both sides of the political spectrum in today's America. Very hopeful description on the need that non-objectivist intellectuals and politicians feel to talk about AR, even if attacking her.
    Txs for posting.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 10 months ago
    The very fact that Brat openly admits that he admires A.R. alone puts him heads above most candidate. So he disagrees with aspects of her philosophy. In any case, I can't imagine him going along with any lefty or RINO unless he's a great actor. He probably will be pummeled pretty much within the beltway, but if he has a solid spine, he can overcome that and hopefully become a mentor to other congressmen and win their support by his example. All that if he wins. The next test is November and hopefully by then he's donned his armor and picked up his lance. He'll need them.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
    It seems that Yaron totally forgets Ronald Reagan. He did challenge communism based on morality.

    I also don't think that AR is the ONLY thinker/author who is capable of bringing back the real American perspective. I think that Mark Levin from an intellectual perspective, Rush Limbaugh from an historical perspective (his new children's books on American history), and several Gulchers from a cultural perspective are also doing so.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 years, 10 months ago
      I would not be surprised if Yaron is already familiar with AR's view on Ronnie. When asked around 1976 which Republican she favored for President, with Ronnie in the list of possibles, she said "RONALD REAGAN??!?" She presumably considered him to be primarily a Hollywood movie actor. She never did get a chance to see him become the best president since Coolidge.
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      • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
        She didn't like him.
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        • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
          As Snezzy said, she would have been familiar with him as an actor (she was in the movie business) and as California governor. The actor part probably overwhelmed her view as his legacy as governor was to reduce the welfare state, reduced regulation, and fighting against federal taxes. All items that AR would undoubtedly support.
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          • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXNf9rFH...
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            • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
              Makes me wonder what she would call a "good politician?"

              That clip is from '81, so still very early in his tenure as president. And since she passed in March '82, she would not have been able to judge the remainder of his actions.
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              • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
                He was for a "mixed capitalism economy"...Rand was vehemently against such. A 'good politician' would be one for laissez faire capitalism, among other principled ideals.
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                • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
                  As Yaron says in the interview, such a stance is unelectable, at this time. I'm for a position espoused by David Brinkley - the most conservative (I would interject - libertarian) that can get elected. Reagan was far more liberty minded than most before, and all since, including economically.
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                  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 10 months ago
                    the lesser of two evils is still......evil.
                    and you can vote for it?
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                    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
                      So, from your statements I take it that you choose not to vote, or to vote for a "pure" candidate with absolutely no chance of winning, thus aiding the greater evil to win. I'm a pragmatist. I choose to slow the ship from sinking in hopes that we can find the means of plugging the leak and bailing out the ship. Making the hole bigger just so that we all perish that much sooner isn't in my character.

                      The problem with AS, in my opinion, is that AR used the Gulch as a plot device. This causes many to think that such action is possible and is the solution, it is not. If we go down, it is going to be many decades, perhaps centuries before there will be a resurrection to anything close to what we had previously.
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                  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 10 months ago
                    He was very in favor of the war on drugs. that is not liberty minded. But I agree in politics, there are movements in the right direction. Voting is important. BUt you do not have to vote for the lesser of two evils. It is absurd we have grown in to a two party system.
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                    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
                      I've yet to find anyone who is "pure." I disagree on his approach to drugs (actually Nancy had a better policy - just say "No" which was a cultural approach, not a legal one), but overall he was better than most, and we certainly haven't had any that equaled him since (nor any that have even sought the office that had a chance of winning).
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                  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
                    ah..you're walking that line of compromise.... (insert scream here)
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                    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
                      No, just rationality. Power that gets me half-way there is better than power that takes me away.
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                      • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
                        It will also take that much longer to WAKE PEOPLE UP. And a "half way" of evil (power) is still evil power. Plus you're way over surmising by saying "half way there"...it's just a slower boat to hell if we don't have real men at the helm. Why is it so damned difficult to find men with real integrity in America willing to take the lead?
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                        • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
                          Because those men are quickly vanquished. If we had chosen Perot, rather than Bush, we would have been more on the way to our desired objective. But alas, that was too radical for the majority. A 30 deg turn is easier than a 180 deg turn. Part of the problem is those that insist on purity instead of pragmatism. Pragmatism might move towards the objective, while purity ensures movement away.
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                          • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
                            We're a fraction of a degree from going over the cliff right now, actually are feet are already dangling over the cliff... the only thing that will save us is a 180 degree turn. I won't vote for anything less, it's an unprincipled vote. Also, the other problem, besides weak politician choices, is the brain activity of the voters. How do we wake people up too see the cliff that their ass is sitting on the edge of. (bad grammar...I don't care.)
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                            • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 10 months ago
                              A 180 degree turn is unrealistic. You can either choose suicide, or some deferred decimation that may lead to an acceptable path. Too often the pure have allowed the vile to ascend. Will you do so again in '14 and '16?
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