Libertarian or Licentious?.....

Muddy Creek said:

This is Rand jumping on the bandwagon because he's tired of his party losing to democrats.

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What bandwagon did he jump onto in this case? He is clearly influenced by his right-libertarian father more than anyone. It is only logical he would be critical of the Republicans on many social issues including drug laws.

Muddy Creek said:

Democrats are and have been talking about legalizing marijuana for years.

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A very small minority of Dems have talked about it. Most of them are quite pro-drug war. Take off the partisan glasses please.

Geoist said:

A very small minority of Dems have talked about it. Most of them are quite pro-drug war. Take off the partisan glasses please.

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For the drug war? Yes. Against pot? Not so much.

MoSurveyor said:

For the drug war? Yes. Against pot? Not so much.

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Perhaps you could get most of them willing to support easing restrictions on pot. But legalize it? No. At least not publicly.

Geoist said:

Perhaps you could get most of them willing to support easing restrictions on pot. But legalize it? No. At least not publicly.

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He did say legalization, didn't he? You're right, they won't stand up for it publicly.

Cephus said:

I don't think so, we just need to start consistently teaching kids from a very young age how to think critically and how to be logical.

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Yes, but most of our society does not want that. If we want them to be free to reject that, it will never be the norm.

And when that dynamic of only a few wanting to really succeed exists, you then end up with a large wealth disparity. Then liberals will argue wealth disparity is a symptom of not taxing the wealthy to provide handouts to everyone else, and when they achieve that it will only serve to reinforce that negative loop. Having a relatively comfortable existence in the U.S. at little effort provides enormous disincentive to push for excellence and self sufficiency. Good luck breaking that.

Mach said:

Yes, but most of our society does not want that. If we want them to be free to reject that, it will never be the norm.

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I think the day is coming, relatively soon in fact, when society is going to change it's mind. Mostly what's keeping education down is religion and religion is failing across the board, especially fundamentalist and evangelical religion. Get rid of that, and it might happen within the lifetimes of our children, and a mandate for education, for the sake of education, is hardly unreasonable.

And when that dynamic of only a few wanting to really succeed exists, you then end up with a large wealth disparity. Then liberals will argue wealth disparity is a symptom of not taxing the wealthy to provide handouts to everyone else, and when they achieve that it will only serve to reinforce that negative loop. Having a relatively comfortable existence in the U.S. at little effort provides enormous disincentive to push for excellence and self sufficiency. Good luck breaking that.

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What can I say, liberals are stupid.