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    Filed at 2:37 pm under by dcobranchi

    Ryan at Edspresso (Still the best blog name ever!) pointed me to this TechCentralStation column on a proposed libertarian/Democratic Party alliance.

    Thank you for your recent overture. Libertarians are not very good at accepting overtures. We tend to be purists, and there is much in your essay that violates my ideas of libertarianism.

    This kind of nonsense is why I quit voting for the Libertarian Party.

    Ryan has asked me to write a guest column on this topic at edpsresso.com, so I’ll keep my powder dry for now.

    3 Responses to “BUT PURISTS NEVER WIN”


    Comment by
    COD
    October 6th, 2006
    at 2:52 pm

    The biggest problem with Kling’s trade offer is that we can’t trust politicians of any stripe to follow through on a promise. So what if the democratic party did promise to support a 5 state rollout of real school choice. What are the odds of them actually following through without watering it down so much as to be unrecognizable as the libertarian idea of choice?

    I put those odds at less than 1%.


    Comment by
    Jason
    October 7th, 2006
    at 9:22 am

    I fail to see how committed homeschoolers can look to the Dems for (freely given) political support. Most Democrats where I live (in the People’s Republic of Maryland) are openly hostile to home-schoolers, and tend to make excuses for corrupt, incompetent school administrations while demanding more tax dollars to fix the problems that those administrations have created and / or allowed to fester. Are Democrats any different in NC? Or anywhere else, for that matter?


    Comment by
    NMcV
    October 7th, 2006
    at 3:44 pm

    The Dems in NJ — as a group — don’t care on way or the other about homeschoolers. As individuals, some are OK, some are against, one is notoriously anti (but she’s anti for personal reasons having nothing really to do with home ed; she’s against the Rigious Right and thinks we’re all it’s minions).

    But we seem to have more private and parochial schools per capita than other states, and I think that does make a difference. You can’t be “anti-every-educational-alternative” like the NEA is here, or you alienate too many people.