Scapegoating is a favorite pastime of politicians and pundits: laying blame on one’s political opponents. You can tell which group is in charge by a careful study of the official scapegoats. Depending on what the nation’s textbooks say was the great evil of the scapegoats, it is possible to identify which freedoms we were about to lose when the textbooks were written. Because that’s what the modern messianic State does: reduces freedoms. The only question is this: “Which ones?” Different political groups prefer to take away different liberties. Whenever they act in a bi-partisan fashion, this means that the parties’ … Continue reading Hating Big Business