{"id":12023,"date":"2010-05-20T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12023"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:47:06","slug":"rand-pauls-take-on-private-property-rights-is-correct-and-daring-to-tell-unfamiliar-uncomfortable-truths-to-voters-is-laudable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12023\/rand-pauls-take-on-private-property-rights-is-correct-and-daring-to-tell-unfamiliar-uncomfortable-truths-to-voters-is-laudable\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul’s take on private property rights is correct — and daring to tell unfamiliar, uncomfortable truths to voters is laudable."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking that “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” has brought us a nearly universal display of cowardice from the RE.net. If I am mistaken in this, I will happily amend my error with a link and a courtly bow. But I expect there is even more room for quivering, quibbling, cowering, caviling cowardice on this fine and perfect day.<\/p>\n

Like this: The position Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul took on property rights yesterday is correct<\/a> — not just as regards property rights, but as an expression of the errors we need to correct in the body politic if we are to reemerge, eventually, as something resembling a civilized society.<\/p>\n

The left is attempting to smear Paul as a racist for insisting that private property owners themselves have the moral authority to be racists, even if Paul and virtually everyone else find that position to be morally-repugnant. This Two-Minutes-Hate campaign doesn’t seem like a winning strategy to me, in the age of the internet. The left will have no trouble finding reasons to hate Rand Paul, but his own tea party admirers may find in his principled arguments even more cause to admire him.<\/p>\n

But mainstream Republicans are in full-reverse mode, backing away from Paul as quickly as they can. This seems to me to be a mistake. The tea party movement is an artifact of the age of the internet. At the least, tea partiers check up on the things they are told by the mainstream media. And it seems plausible to me that many of those folks are aware that the United States has been pursuing the wrong policies — as a matter of philosophy — since the end of the nineteenth century, at least. Anyone seeking greater human liberty has to regard this present moment as an incredible opportunity to get ordinary Americans thinking about ideas they might never have considered before. For Republicans to race away from the actual philosophy<\/em> of liberty seems to me to be hugely stupid.<\/p>\n

So let’s start here: Racism is by far the stupidest and most morally-repugnant form of collectivism. This is completely obvious to any thoughtful individualist, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well. I’m thinking that “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” has brought us a nearly universal display of cowardice from the RE.net. If I am mistaken in this, I will happily amend my error with a link and a courtly bow. But I expect there is even more room for quivering, quibbling, cowering, caviling cowardice on this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,24,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17629,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17629\/overnight-news-profiles-in-courage-the-supreme-court-offers-only-the-penumbra-of-cowardice\/","url_meta":{"origin":12023,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Profiles in courage? 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