Re: Hating Us for Our Freedom
September 2, 2012
David: Now I understand the Republican mindset: If “they” (the “bad guys”) hate us for our freedom and thus want to destroy us, taking away such freedom will deprive the “bad guys” of any reason to attack us! Being thoroughly dominated and enslaved by the corporate-state, in other words, is a form of national defense! I haven’t appreciated the depths of their thinking. I just thought the GOP crowd was nothing more than a gang of unprincipled thugs prepared to use any amount of lies, contradictions, and violence to serve their ends!
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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