In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
When Libertarians drone about state's rights and how government shouldn't interfere with private decisions, what they're actually defending is, as Rand Paul (R-States Rights) explains, the right of states and residents of said state to treat fellow Americans as second-class citizens and/or property.
'Nuff said on that. I believe people are more important than property. Libertarians, apparently, believe property is more important than people. So it goes.
-- Badtux the Civil Rights Penguin
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For Libertarians, people at best come in third behind both property and corporations.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me there are three people that Libertarians place above all, me, myself and I.
ReplyDeleteWhat montag said...for a lot of those govment folks, no matter what party.
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