Social Philosophy: No S#@t category and misc.

Mark Horne makes this excellent point a few days ago: (and for those that don't want to click away here is the text:)

I’m too tired to find links or videos or anything, so you’ll have to do all the relevant googling yourself. A couple of fixed points: First, I don’t approve of illegal activity involving deception in order to vote more than once in an election. Second, I would prefer that Obama not be our next president.

Outside of those two considerations, however, I can’t really get too worked up over all the voter fraud that is taking place. Voter fraud only matters if voters matter. And they don’t. We just had Congress and the Senate decide to make a big geek our economic dictator with $700 billion and virtually zero accountability (along with $150 billion in pork). This was done over the objections of an overwhelming majority of voters begging them not to. Wall Street had already bought all of those lawmakers. When Congress temporarily acted like responsible people, Wall Street used Wall Street’s media to whip Wall Street’s recalcitrant politicians back into line so that they voted for the law.

So why should I get outraged that lower class radical socialists have found their own way to beat the system? (of course, they probably are working for Wall Street too and just don’t know it; but whatever) The rich people buy votes and the poor fabricate them. I don’t see much point in being outraged.

And on another note, the latest dead tree version of National Review had on their cover a picture of Adam Smith, an economist/philosopher that I happen to include in my favorites for a more consistent view of economic reality.

I'll post the picture later.

The reason I mention Adam Smith is that this magazine, NR, I once admired when Buckley was alive, has allowed it's writers to drink the Neo-con corporatist koolaid. I define a corporatist as someone who thinks that large bureaucratic, monopolistic, anti-competition organizations such as the modern mega-corporation is the way to have capitalism and free trade. It is ironic that NR should place a picture of Adam Smith on their cover as their current position is opposed to what he espoused. The modern corporation is used as a tool to stifle competition and create monopolies; this is a violation of true free enterprise and un-regulated markets.

Another great evil perpetrated on the societies of the world are these trans-national organizations' disregard for the lives of their workers and the lives of the people of the countries they operate in. This form of globalism has created barriers to innovation and opportunity by many, and when they can't get the neo-cons to get things their way, they use international socialism and fascist terror. All ultimately ruled by the world bankers and their henchmen (like the insurance companies).

Just don't look behind the curtain, and we'll only let you be left or right instead of free. Just bloody special!!

I'm sure if they knew, people like Adam Smith, von Mises, and the like would be in high spin in their graves.