From: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Time to shed the right -vs- left, socialism -vs- capitalism hyperbole and purchase Thomas Piketty's new book " Capital in the Twenty-First Century. " PARIS — Thomas Piketty turned 18 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, so he was spared the tortured, decades-long French intellectual debate about the virtues and vices of communism. Even more telling, he remembers, was a trip he took with a close friend to Romania in early 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet empire. “This sort of vaccinated me for life against lazy, anticapitalist rhetoric, because when you see these empty shops, you see these people queuing for nothing in the street,” he said, “it became clear to me that we need private property and market institutions, not just for economic efficiency but for personal freedom.” (emphasis mine) But his disenchantment with communism doesn’t mean that Mr. Piketty has turned his back on the intellectual ...
Yeah, a while ago he crossed the line into territory of "someone I would prefer Bernie or Hillary to".
ReplyDeleteThe top three G(rand) O(bstructionist) P(arty) candidates for POTUS are essentially alike. Trump is the most crude and rude but any of the three will move the nation further down the same path toward destroying civil liberties, further dividing Americans, and solidifying wealth even more at the top.
ReplyDeleteA nightmare should Cruz or either of the other two win the presidency.
For the past twenty five years, I've been a recovering Republican. Now that I see what the GOP is offering, I'll be voting for someone I don't really like very much - Hillary! Cruz and Trump are simply evil and crazy and little lying Marco is just not ready for prime time. I like Bernie but he won't be the nominee so I'm left voting for Hillary but without pleasure.
ReplyDeleteYes BlueBull there is evil at work in the G(rand) O(obstructionist) P(arty). Cruz is truly and evil man imo, Trump is a totally self absorbed narcissist and demagogue, and Rubio would be a rehash of the GWB neo con years.
ReplyDeleteBut I am not sure I can ever bring myself to vote for HRC. Maybe Gary Johnson or the Green Party candidate. Since I live in MA,which will either go HRC or Bernie Sanders I'm free to ast a protest vote. Again. Woo Hoo!!