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wasoxygen  ·  1230 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake

Yes, I would like to see more people say that partisanship is a mistake. Everyone seems disappointed by the home team, yet most cheer as loudly as ever.

    “We did not create the tea party. We shared their concern about unsustainable government spending, and we supported some tea-party groups on that issue,” Mr. Koch wrote in an email. “But it seems to me the tea party was largely unsuccessful long-term, given that we’re coming off a Republican administration with the largest government spending in history.”




am_Unition  ·  1230 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One thing I've been wanting to point out (have I already in an email? dunno) is the relatively larger amount of political spectrum permitted by the left. The GOP has been transformed into the party of "whatever Trump says goes", ideological consistencies with recent history be damned (and here, Koch's got him). One of the reasons top GOP brass allowed all of this was because of how effective it made them politically, to unify behind one man. The left's ideological diversity simply does not allow for that, and they are weaker for it, despite ideological diversity being a healthy thing.

But yeah, you libertarians were already pretty neglected, and then you get blamed by Trumpkins for voting Jorgenson. Come join me, on the dark side. Together, we can rule the galaxy.

wasoxygen  ·  1230 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Jorgensen said "I used to tell people the Libertarian Party is the best of both sides. We take the economic freedoms from the right and the social freedoms from the left. I can't even say that anymore because Republicans aren't acting like Republicans and Democrats aren't acting like Democrats."

I agree the left offers more spectrum, having taken over most of the airwaves, media and academia. I am still partial to Caplan's Simplistic Theory of Left and Right, which says the right is defined by opposition to the left. Yudkowsky offers his take in a delightful parable.