Election 2006: a war referendum
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
10/16/06
The rise of the GOP as the party of authoritarianism and war has created a movement that is inchoately opposed to our foreign policy of global interventionism and passionately concerned about the erosion of civil liberties and our constitutional order. It is a rising tide of quasi-libertarian sentiment, one that has no political expression outside a purely negative 'activism' -- throwing the bums out. There is no real awareness of what these new bums are all about, nothing but the vague hope that things will get better -- and the fear that they could be much, much worse. It is not love of the Democrats but fear of the Republicans that swells the ranks of the 'netroots.' This is not your father's GOP: the libertarian strain of the Republican Party, once vibrant, has been all but exterminated by the post-9/11 GOP loyalists, whose ideology is as far removed from the anti-statism of the old Goldwater movement as it is possible to get...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9869
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Justin Raimondo
10/16/06
The rise of the GOP as the party of authoritarianism and war has created a movement that is inchoately opposed to our foreign policy of global interventionism and passionately concerned about the erosion of civil liberties and our constitutional order. It is a rising tide of quasi-libertarian sentiment, one that has no political expression outside a purely negative 'activism' -- throwing the bums out. There is no real awareness of what these new bums are all about, nothing but the vague hope that things will get better -- and the fear that they could be much, much worse. It is not love of the Democrats but fear of the Republicans that swells the ranks of the 'netroots.' This is not your father's GOP: the libertarian strain of the Republican Party, once vibrant, has been all but exterminated by the post-9/11 GOP loyalists, whose ideology is as far removed from the anti-statism of the old Goldwater movement as it is possible to get...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9869
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 16. Okt, 14:58
