In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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What bothers me is the twisted logic that assholes like Dr. Richard Swier use to arrive at this conclusion:
They start with the assumption that we don't get to choose. Our votes do not belong to us--but to the candidate that they wanted to win.
Then they compound this folly by torturing the math until it appears to support their belief.
Does he really believe that the 16647 votes for Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr would have gone to Mitt Romney if they had not been on the ballot?
Does he seriously believe that every Libertarian would have voted for Mitt Romney if Gary Johnson had not run?
I think the GOP is tone deaf to the Libertarian message. They will pander to the black and hispanic vote. I think they heard that one.
I could care less what the party does, and in fact would prefer it to remain hostile to libertarians.
We have an impact on the outcome of elections.
Why do you think appealing "to the black and hispanic vote", ...pandering ???
My fear is that they will peel away enough to create one majority and two minority/rump parties which guarantees liberalism forever.