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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (26784)8/18/2006 10:57:49 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 543262
 
While I was off at Safeway trying to select avocados without squeezing them, I thought of an analogy. Analogies on SI often run off on tangents and result in more fog than light but I'll try anyway. It's worth the risk to disabuse you of your conflation of current Republican conservatism and libertarianism.

Say the Democrats were upset by the collateral loss of life in some Bush war and recommended using special forces rather than daisy cutters. Then say that someone claimed that sending special forces to wherever is a Democratic principle. You'd easily see how inapt that was. Democrats are reluctant to send troops anywhere. Sending special forces is intended to mitigate an extant scenario, not stand as a core principle. It's better than the mess we're in, not something they advocate.

So it is with privatizing Social Security. It's marginally better from a libertarian perspective than the mess we're in. But it's hardly libertarian.

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