Neo Liberals, the "Tea Party", and Libertarians

Out of the blue a truth about Neo Liberals came to me- they're losers, total failures.  At the top are a few  greedy tax dodgers like the Koch Brothers funding their movement.   Then the arguers, apologists, and debate club pains-in-the-asses who are the "intellectuals".   And there are a handful of true color Libertarians, as much as 1% of the electorate.   The vast majority of knuckledraggers, almost to a man an "independent contractor", have failed so horribly in the world of paid employment that they had to become the sainted small businessman yeomanry because they totally failed at working with others.   Don't give me any laid off bullshit- you got the sack solely because you are an asshole.

Why do they blame the gubmint for every evil?  Because they won't take responsibility for their own failures.    They know, although few have read Ayn Rand (Ayn Rand, Ein Reich, Ein Volk), that they would be just miserable in a Randian/Libertarian/Neo Liberal fantasy land.    Why do they hate people like me, even worse off than they are?   The pecking order.

Someone above them pecks their head and instead of taking it and moving on, they peck the next man down.    They want nothing less than the return of slavery.   They want someone to grovel at their feet for every crumb so they can feel power in a world in which they can't function.   Pathetic.

There are 300 million of us.   Government is the way we manage competing interests.   The magic of the market is just that- sleight of hands, mirrors, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.    One fine day in 2008 nobody bought or sold bonds. NO ONE.    Market failure- who bailed out the market?    Did The Market bail out the market?    You did, asshole.  Grow up.

1812 and All That (If Only)

I get a kick out of this old patriotic, loyalist stuff. Make the heart swell and that. Never felt the same about America. We almost made it out, too. In 1814 the Royal Navy extended its blockade of the United States to include New England. Nantucket lasted a few weeks and gave in- they made a separate peace with the British. This unleashed a cascade of similar deals up and down the coast. Massachusetts told London they'd come back when this whole Life, Liberty, Purfuit malarkey fell apart. I don't know about Connecticut or Vermont, but the rest of us would have seceded if the British government hadn't decided what with Napoleon vanquished there wasn't much point continuing. A bit late for the Battle of New Orleans, but there you go.
Just think- a head of state far away instead of glad handing and podium pounding every few years; ideals of peace, order, and good government, instead of how can I strut my stuff and make all my neighbors miserable; not being hated for something some blowhard in Tennessee says; a dollar worth a dollar. So close! This will never appear in any Rockets Red Glare history textbook. Who won the War of 1812? Canada- ask any Canadian.