tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3149359430429224671..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-90211962840804240392013-01-29T13:42:58.411-05:002013-01-29T13:42:58.411-05:00The reference to Mancur Olson really threw me. Ols...The reference to Mancur Olson really threw me. Olson, who wrote a book called The Logic of Collective Action:Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. I doubt Brooks would dig it. Bulworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06506195561153519897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-53478475887578332512013-01-29T12:53:51.130-05:002013-01-29T12:53:51.130-05:00Thanks....Thanks....Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-15284343241167356182013-01-29T12:50:49.609-05:002013-01-29T12:50:49.609-05:00I'm with Victor and Aimai. This is a great pos...I'm with Victor and Aimai. This is a great post, Steve. And Aimai's right about the much older history of encroachment fear. debghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14824163721348960071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-704264699877723952013-01-29T11:25:25.998-05:002013-01-29T11:25:25.998-05:00The encroachment story only works for the libertar...The encroachment story only works for the libertarian types. <br /><br />It works against the entire project and all the political goals of the Christian right and the sociocons.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-81621473972210331642013-01-29T10:37:26.931-05:002013-01-29T10:37:26.931-05:00Jindal thought it would be a swell idea to funnel ...Jindal thought it would be a swell idea to funnel money to rich people and corporations from the poorest of the poor as they are dying, by gutting Medicaid hospice care.<br /><br />Enabling these people to spend their last days of life in dignity and without pain? Pffft. Not like they will be sending campaign contributions or voting for the "right" people. What use are they? Why waste a dime on them for no return?<br /><br />He backed off, but that doesn't make him any less vile.Neferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983053827261292393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-35343683156462775582013-01-29T10:28:28.610-05:002013-01-29T10:28:28.610-05:00Its also not really since Barry Goldwater-- a name...Its also not really since Barry Goldwater-- a name so old that most voters (not Brook's readers but actual voters) won't remember him its since the CIVIL WAR. Encroachment fever began before the Civil War with the struggle over the question of whether new states and territories would be free or slave and continued right through Reconstruction and post reconstruction. Encroachment and "state's rights" being obvious covers for a local agenda of repression and theft (theft of native american lands, repression of non whites). Wherever the state and the constitution have been used to wedge open rights and opportunities for disfavored groups (including women and children) the pushback has been at the local level against national law.<br /><br />Nothing new there and it certainly doesn't date back to Barry Goldwater. What's new is the total embrace of this viewpoint by even the Federal movers and shakers in the Republican party. Usually people who manage to get to the top of the heap at least acknolwedge the validity of the power they themselves wield. Post Reagan the rhetoric of devolution and of state's rights became more powerful than the reality of the national state. But that is a case of the "lady riding the tiger." Basically, the tiger ate the lady and the party of the John Birchers and Barry Goldwater and the neo confederates at the national party.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-80747614385785845742013-01-29T09:12:34.301-05:002013-01-29T09:12:34.301-05:00Wow!
Out of all of the great stuff I've read ...Wow!<br /><br />Out of all of the great stuff I've read from you over the years, this may be the very best.<br /><br />You've said it all, and that's all I've got to say, Steve.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com