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Looks like he started out on the right, especially economically (see the background on Reaganomics) but since the end of the cold war the Overton Window has shi
by cstross 13y ago
Looks like he started out on the right, especially economically (see the background on Reaganomics) but since the end of the cold war the Overton Window has shifted so far that he's now on the civil-libertarian end of the spectrum, which is often referred to disparagingly as "liberal" in American politics.
(Non-American here ...)
- crusso 13y agoShifted? With the implication that there's been some sort of Right-shift in the US that leaves this guy in the middle or in civil-libertarian space? Pick a topic: drug legalization, gay marriage, social program spending, state intervention in private commerce, public health care. Look at the goals of the Left in the US and the goals of the Right in the US over the past 30 years. Clearly the Left has made all of the policy and public mindshare advances. Even military spending is relatively flat and purpose of the military has gone from some hard right fight against communism to a squishier press for democracy.
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- blahbl4hblah 13y agolibertarianism is nonsense.