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Entry: Confessions of a Bitter Old Reactionary Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/confessions_of_a_bitter_old_reactionary#23644 Post contents: Mr. Allen sed: "Joe Populist reads like a guy called Joe that posts at Reason.com. He’s a unreconstructed liberal, so consider the source." Simon Tregarth sed: C’mon, Joe, out with it - did a libertarian run off with your wife, or worse, take your favorite dog? Looking forward to the answer, as well as your idea of the proper economic framework we should operate under - No relation, Mr Allen. Don’t haunt Reason.com. In my youth, Mr. Tregarth, I was a "libertarian" I must admit, and used to attend the seminars by the Society for Individual Liberty where we talked about anarcho-capitalism. So I’m well acquainted with the works of Hayek, Von Mises, Ayn Rand, and Rothbard. Takes one to know one, I guess. As for the proper economic framework--well, I’m now a firm advocate of the mixed economy, economic nationalism, state capitalism, or whatever you like to call it. I like strong labor unions, big business and stringent regulation of finance capitalists. I’d probably like to dump the FED--because it is actually “privatized money”---as much as the Ron Paulettes want to deny it. I like Pat Buchanan on social issues and Ralph Nader on economic issues. Generally, I don’t see much difference between the Republican Party and the Democrats on much of anything important. Republicans talk like populists, but govern like plutocrats, while the Democrats are so mixed up on McGovern era “Identity Politics” that they are hopeless. If that makes me a “liberal” Mr. Allen, then you are nuts. What’s interesting is the similarities between communist ideologues and free market ideologues----if Kirk was right that real conservatives is the negation and rejection of ideology, then by right, real conservatives should kick the “libertarians” out of their movement. Commies and “Libertarians” are mirror images of each other, religious like zealots interpreting reality by a rigid set of ideological garbage rather then acknowledging reality. Like the commies that deny that Soviet Russia was “real” communism, the “libertarians” like Justin like to deny that the mess we are in now, is not “real” capitalism, and that all the ‘deregulation” they have advocated for 40 years is now biting them in the ass. Sent at: 2008 08 08