Ron Paul vs. Rand Paul on the non-Ground-Zero non-mosque.
How come whenever Rand Paul deviates from Ron Paul it’s always in the wrong direction?
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Because Ron Paul is always right?
I think Rand Paul is trying the Ron Paul 90s and to a lesser extent 07-08 strategy of pandering to the knuckle draggers. I am not a huge Ron Paul fan, but he deserves a lot of credit for this, he didn’t just say “they have a right to build there whether we like it or not” he went as far as to criticize the anti-Mosqueteers. Rand has openly declared that he’s not a libertarian, so ugliness shouldn’t shock us.
Because note everyone can be the most ideologically pure libertarian in the history of man kind, like you.
Ron Paul isn’t the re-encarnation of Rothbard, but at least he wants to reduce the power of the State, and nowadays, that’s revolutionary.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/351569/august-24-2010/terror-bunker-5200