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Entry: Sell Your Souls to Save Your Skins Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sell_your_souls_to_save_your_skins#11880 Post contents: Mr. Capp; There are only two genuine, legitimately American threads of political thought in America - liberalism and libertarianism. As you mentioned elsewhere, America was born in liberalism (1776), reborn in liberalism (1865), re-reborn in liberalism (1932), re-re-reborn in liberalism (1965), and is incapable of genuine conservatism. Libertarianism is the only other genuinely American political philosophy (or perhaps one should say, the only other political philosophy of which Americans are genuinely capable). But American libertarianism is not the same as Austrian economic libertarianism. It is instead the political expression of the spirit of the wild frontier - of Lewis and Clark, of Billy the Kid and Bat Masterson, of the Sooner's Conestoga Wagon. It is also a political expression doomed, in American political life, to eternally play the part of the Washington Generals to liberalism's Harlem Globetrotters. It will never win the game in the end. But at very least I had hoped for better than sending girls to do our fighting for us, Sent at: 2008 10 07