I find partisan politics disgusting, even repulsive for many reasons. Perhaps the most important is that it rests from A to Z on dishonesty and fraud.
Author: Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, the University of Economics, Prague, and George Mason University. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation.
Nothing Short of Wanton Cruelty
I’m for separation of church and state, separation of school and state, separation of sports and state — hell, I’m actually for separation of human beings and state across the board.
Which is More Unsettling?
The alternatives would appear to reduce to the following two: (1) Trump is an ignoramus and an obnoxious, repellent buffoon; and (2) he is not such a person but he plays one on TV — and on Twitter and in the presidency.
You Can’t Go Home Again, but . . .
Today, when I buy a cantaloupe brought to me in the far reaches of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, I immediately feel a link to my boyhood and relive at least for a few moments the youthful joys of that long-ago time and place.
The Turmoil and Suffering from the Transition to Freedom
When people consider a genuine transition to a free society, many always speculate that the turmoil and suffering of such a transition would be so horrible that no humane person would wish to bring it about.
Incapable of Sustaining Their Tender Egos
After I was graduated from high school in 1961 and went off to the Coast Guard Academy and then to a series of civilian colleges and universities, I had the idea — which was common in those days — that I was an adult. That is, college was for adults, not kids.
To Walk Around in Public without a Straight Jacket
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with any nation that trades with North Korea. That includes China. Trump is an imbecile. Next thing you know, he’ll threaten to nuke the USA to demonstrate his manhood to Kim Jong-un.
The Person Who Kills Millions is a National Hero
Are you ever struck by the number of ultra-criminal individuals — people who have great amounts of blood on their hands — who are not only not in prison, not only permitted to move about freely in society, but are treated as decent individuals and, on some occasions, feted as great and honorable ones?
Everywhere, the Same Sort of Thugs
It’s interesting, and telling, that although cities and other political units differ greatly across the USA, they all have rotten, overbearing police departments.
Don’t Want to Live in a Free Society
People want creature comforts; they want entertainment; and they want the illusion of security, which the government supplies.