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 ...
Looks like Trump's takeover of DOJ is raising some hackles, even among legitimate GOP types.
ReplyDeleteRemember Caligula? Promoted his favorite race horse to Premier: his admiring sycophants cheered,
but there were murmurs. Before long he was assassinated by his own. Perhaps what we are seeing is
an unusual example of the 'power corrupts' paradigm. If one is already powerful, used to getting
their own way, a practiced bully totally lacking in empathy or foresight, and gets elected to the
most important position in the country, it sort of explains things. We shall see how the power
of democracy handles this affront....
It does seem more REAL conservatives, you know, the ones with respect for the rule of law, our constitution, and individual liberties are starting to speak up and out. A good thing. Hopefully it is not too little and too late.
DeleteTomorrow's post is on this subject as well.
As I watched it @YouTube, the number of views went up from 1,081,231
ReplyDeleteto 1,088,104. Looking through the 800+ comments there, they were all
favorable and enthusiastic. Wonder if a fellow who hates criticism
likes being laughed at?
Um, my guess BB Idaho is the orange blob is likely seething inside his whittle ole pouting vengeful self. The dude wanna be has absolutely zero self awareness.
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