Gary and Bill riding high

If a politician has an agenda, that is a list of things he wants to do, if he doesn't get elected he can't get any of it done.  If he gives some of it up to win the election he can still so some of the other stuff, and hell he can still do some of the stuff he renounced to win the election, he can just have some new revelation, he can evolve, a guy that never changes his mind, is a guy who doesn't have much of a mind. People don't care much for politicians who change their mind, flip floppers they are called by their opponents, of course they are called that whether they actually flip flop or not.

Your man Rand was no flip flopper, I admired him for it, but I hated the positions he wouldn't flip on, so I would never vote for him.  I hate to think that he could pull the wool over on a sharp guy like me, but maybe if he said something like, maybe we should inspect medicines to make sure they are not poison I would have voted for him.  I reckon Bernie has never flip-flopped, but I bet you would never vote for him.  My gal Hill flip flops all the time and it doesn't bother me, it's mostly her hawkish attitude that I don't like. Trump flip flops all the time, often several times in the course of the day, but through it all he is always Trump.  The reps and some of his own people have told him to tone it down, but Trump wants to have fun.  So there is a consistency of some sort.

One wonders why one would lie about being an anarchist.  They argued all the time at the turn of the century, and I reckon they do to this day.  Just because somebody puts up an anarchist website doesn't mean that all the anarchists deal with it.  You wonder about that voluntary cooperation thing.  Cops are almost never around and yet usually people are well-behaved, maybe we don't need any guys with stinking badges hanging around.

There's some people. like ourselves of course, who are nice guys through and through, and there are other guys who are nice guys because they don't want to go to jail, and if you take the cops away they will play.  I think the theory is that like in  communism, you can make the new man by having a better political system, but who believes that shit?

I don't buy that social contract stuff where everybody got together and said hey let's have a government to preserve our natural rights.  I think it's in our genes as social animals and beyond that gummints started out simply as a bunch of strong men but as they took in more people they had to be kind of nice to them to avoid being overthrown, and maybe now they are about halfway inbetween as far as helping and hurting people.

These libertarians, these cafeteria libertarians who normally just like the part about cutting taxes, are like an albatross around the neck of the True Party, because oh they are tiresome, they are generally long winded, and a guy who steals your wallet is bad enough, but a guy who keeps flapping his jaws while he does it, intolerable.

That's why I think Gary and Bill should call themselves 'Tarians!  They're hip and on the move, and are those joints hanging out the corners of their mouths?  Not that there is anything wrong with that.

You say you left the olde libertarians because you disagreed with them on the second Iraq war, but that they turned out to be right on that.  Of course Rand was against all preemptive wars, so were they right out being against all of them, or just on that particular one?