Posted on 02/26/2009 9:54:23 PM PST by bamahead
I don’t know whether this belongs in the comic-relief category or the future-threats category, but the Harvard Law School is having a conference to analyze the “free market mindset.” The basic premise of the conference seems to be that people who believe in limited government are psychologically troubled.
The conference schedule features presentations such as “How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community” and “Addicted to Incentives: How the Ideology of Self Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling.” The most absurd presentation, though, may be the one entitled, “Colossal Failure: The Output Bias of Market Economies.” According to the description, the author argues that the market “delivers excessive levels of consumption.” Damn those entrepreneurs for creating so much wealth!
In the good old days of Soviet dictatorship, the regime classified dissidents as being mentally ill (after all, only a nutcase would fail to see the glories of communism).
Now that leftists at Harvard want to portray laissez-faire philosophy as being somewhat akin to a mental disorder, maybe the next step will be re-education camps for Cato staff? Maybe the next “stimulus” bill could include a few earmarks for such facilities? I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I get sent some place warm.
Same here. No one who calls himself a Libertarian should be able to vote for Obama with a clear conscience. At least the ones who voted for Barr were doing so primarily to advance the party. There is no excuse for voting for Obama if you’re one of the LP faithful.
Absolutly. I am Libertarian. I must be crazy.One of the signs is that you think everybody else is crazy. I think we should cut the government by 90% and eliminate income based taxation. Guess I am crazy.
Yeah, well, people who believe in limited government have a hell of a lot to be psychologically troubled about right now.
Yes, I knew that Obama went to the law school. I supposed I complicated the thought by being specific in one place and not the other.
Obama has also said that he was a constitutional lawyer, which strikes me as odd because he really doesn’t seem to believe in the government limiting itself to the deliniated powers. Perhaps he only studied constitutional law long enough to figure out how to twist it.
Bush shares the inflation/big government blame, yes.
Wow. You ARE crazy. Kinda like me.
Going to the Harvard Law School to study historically constitutional law is like studying sensitivity and humanity under the Marquis de Sade.
The best anyone could do was vote "Not Obama." McCain was utterly clueless. I suspect that with the exception of the gun control crapola, we'd be seeing similar spending sprees under McCain right now.
Do you have any percentages for libertarians? The figures quoted in Christianity Today say 25% of evangelcals voted for Obama:
Exit polls say 26 percent of American voters called themselves evangelical or born-again Christians, and of these, 74 percent voted for McCain, with 25 percent voting for Obama.
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/the_evangelical.html
**people who believe in limited government are psychologically troubled.**
then, I guess, our Founding Fathers were Psychos, and that JOHN ADAMS GUY was a real LUNATIC!!
Yo Harvard... If you want to look for Mental Illness.. I suggest you start looking at your TENURED STAFF!!!
Getting out my shovel and boots!!!
It’s going to be easier going Libertarian than going back to the GOP.
With the GOP I have about 8 items I have to square before I’d go back.
As for Libertarians, If it wasn’t for their stand on the war, the Drug bit, and they keep running what look like Republicans who smoked too much dope in the 60’s, I’d sign up today.
My main problem with these “wars” is they are not “declared” by congress. They become politicized. We should only go do war by declaration and then fight to unconditional victory. PC warfare does not work for me.
You Americans really have no idea what is happening to you, do you?
The hard-left has its fangs dug into your neck, has pierced your carotid and is currently feasting.
At the risk of seeming extreme, all of your suspicions are true.
The real question is: will you awaken to defend yourselves before it’s too late.
You see, there is a tipping point at which you cannot go back.
The base left has succeeded in a slow-motion takeover of your country.
The clock is ticking.
It is very interesting to observe, I must say.
PLease explain to me how these “wars” are not “DECLARED” by Congress.. the Constitution says Congress is to declare war, but there is NO SET VERBAGE in the Constitution of how to do that. I must have missed it, but then, Constitutional Scholars MUCH MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN I have also “MISSED IT”. A joint resolution saying ... “Prez, go kick their BUTTS!” Is as much a Declaration of war according to the Constitution.
Please remember, the Constitution is not a SUICIDE PACT.. we have the right to defend ourselves, Preemptively or otherwise.
It is more than just a sign. It is the whole banana.
Still a better situation than forty or fifty years ago, when free market economists were a rarity—if not outright nonexistent—outside the Universiy of Chicago.
Harvard, as well as other uber-liberal universities, feature some very prominent free market economists in their economics department. In economics departments, it’s not unusual to be a libertarian, free market, “conservative.” Not even at UC Berkley.
Agree. I'd be interested in the breakdown among libertarian voters.
Using Christianity Today's figures, I came up with nearly 8,000,000 evangelicals who voted for Obama.
**any Libertarian who voted for Obama a LINO.**
Actually I have a term (really Several) for ANYONE who voted for OBAMA ... STUPID, MORON, DANGEROUS, VAPID ... come QUICKLY to mind.
>> Is Libertarianism a Sign of Mental Illness?
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>> people who believe in limited government are psychologically troubled.
I would say so, especially when they end up voting for the party of bigger government.
No offense to the Libertarians here at FR.
Lyle H. Rossiter, JR., M.D. also thinks that socialism is a mental desease read his book The Liberal mind
Just a point of, perhaps nothing more than grammar but, the market cannot deliver consumption. Consumption is a reaction to production.
Perhaps it's just that these clowns don't understand anything.
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