Libertarian Bryan Caplan says that “hard-core libertarians’ comparative advantage is to play watchdog for moderate libertarians – and make them seem reasonable by comparison.” You see, on many areas other libertarians secretly agree with us, but they are afraid to acknowledge it openly. Instead, they prefer to let us take the heat for our principled positions, and to wait for us to turn previously “radical” ideas into common sense.
- from part 2 of an excellent "interview." Part 1 is here.
This almost seems like a good science fiction story except there are people that actually believe a lot of this stuff.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of feudal Europe. Lots of lords, "free cities", serfs, mercenary armies, etc;etc
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