If you were at all like me when you were a kid, once or twice you decided to hang around with someone who was a bad influence. It didn’t have to be someone who peer-pressured you into drinking or smoking. You could’ve been standing next to them when they decided to throw a rock through a window and you were blamed just for being there. Associations matter. Even more so as an adult.
Growing up with democracy pounded into your brain at every level of schooling makes one believe that you need a "big tent" to get shit done.
Burnham cures that. We know that one hundred men all on the same page can dominate a thousand men who aren't united.
Understanding this means alienating the wrong types is better than persuading them. Gatekeeping is good. If you have to defend yourself from a person then they won't make a good ally.
Looking forward to the Cato institute releasing an article explaining why anti-abortion laws are more libertarian than forcing people to wear a rubber.
At this point, personally I am an ISOLATIONIST. I understand that it has a cost. But it is the first line of defense.
However the left gets things done in their direction while the right keeps walking on eggshells. Why? What is wrong with that picture? I wonder if Christianity influence in this area the main problem?
Is the desire for security, and safety so strong that the word "freedom" seems a coverup for the fears of the right.
Growing up with democracy pounded into your brain at every level of schooling makes one believe that you need a "big tent" to get shit done.
Burnham cures that. We know that one hundred men all on the same page can dominate a thousand men who aren't united.
Understanding this means alienating the wrong types is better than persuading them. Gatekeeping is good. If you have to defend yourself from a person then they won't make a good ally.
Build the community, but build the gates first.
Looking forward to the Cato institute releasing an article explaining why anti-abortion laws are more libertarian than forcing people to wear a rubber.
At this point, personally I am an ISOLATIONIST. I understand that it has a cost. But it is the first line of defense.
However the left gets things done in their direction while the right keeps walking on eggshells. Why? What is wrong with that picture? I wonder if Christianity influence in this area the main problem?
Is the desire for security, and safety so strong that the word "freedom" seems a coverup for the fears of the right.