Why does nick gillespie wear black

And it was by a guy who was into iron, Rand, as well as lots of other stuff. And that if you want to have a kind of good system for creating a world that makes sense, and that allows people to do most of what they want to become whoever they want to sell whatever they want, you need to be a free thinker, you need to be willing to entertain almost any idea, but you also need to be in a system that allows you to make money, and then kind of spend it on what you want.

And when you have one of those things, but not the other, you get into a lot of trouble. Juliette: That makes sense. All the same. Nick: Well, I think big L, libertarian means, somebody who is a member of the Libertarian Party, which is a political organization that is trying to elect people to office. So in the same way, you can be a small d, Democrat or a big D, Democrat, meaning that you believe in representative government.

And more or less the majority rules, you can also be republican with a small r, where you believe in representative government, but that certain things cannot be put up to a vote, or you can be a capital R. Can you talk about that a little bit? Nick: Yeah. But, take for instance, and again, this is why knowing history a little bit is helpful, it flushes out your vision of the world.

But, 20 years ago, Starbucks was just kind of beginning to become like a major kind of chain. That might seem like a kind of banal one or a trivial one. But it holds up for a lot of different things, including, how do you live your life?

It used to be if you go back 50 years or years ago, if you were a woman, for instance, or if you were black, you did not have the same number of options that you have now certain things either because of laws or because of customs and you have received tradition. And in most parts of our lives, when you think about things like food when you think about things like jobs and working hours and working conditions, people over time have become much more able to kind of determine where they want to work and how they want to work.

Whereas before, a lot of that stuff was kind of forced on them. Those are a lot of big changes. And some of these changes come specifically because of political action, a lot of the ways in which say blacks and women have advanced was because of political arguments to change particular laws to allow more people to participate more fully in parts of life.

But a lot of it is also just that people change their mind and people loosen up things are people innovate and come up with new ideas. Nick: One of the things that were the starting point for the book was that Matt and I had recognized in our lifetime, and we were both born in the s.

And just in our lifetime, things had become much less kind of stuffy or stuck up. In most parts of our lives, you know, people were able to wear their hair, different ways, people were able to dress differently, people were able to talk differently, and just kind of look differently, everything became looser. Everything, there were more and more choices, and what to watch and TV, you know what to wear, where to work, how to live.

And why was that? How can we bring the amount of choice and individual individualization and personalization? How can we bring that to bear to politics? Can you talk about the connection that exists between more choices, more freedoms in terms of like, where you go to eat, what you wear all that stuff, and the rise of this more independent group of people? Nick: Yeah, and again, history is helpful, it used to be that or if you think about political parties, as kind of package bundles, I mean, everybody now is kind of cutting their cord.

But it would be, you would pay bucks a month or something for a cable package. And in order to get three or four channels that you really want, you would have to buy the whole package. But in order to do that, I have to buy with my vote a party that is super in favor of high taxes, and, you know, unions or something like that.

Why should I have to take that package rather than voting for the things that I want. And instead of having laws or parties that cover so many aspects of our lives, we instead shrink what politics is, is about to fewer and fewer issues.

And it also allows, in the same way, that a novel allows a writer to produce a different effect than a short story was one of the selling points of albums was that it was more of a deeper, rich, artistic statement. And I realized that the shuffle button is fooling me like this. I just prefer listening to an album in order because the artist said it should be that way. And this now goes back more into my kind of literary studies background, but the author, obviously, intended something.

Because when you listen to something, or you read something, or you consume something, you make it your own. And when CDs came out, one of the things that CDs allowed, was still an album, and you were buying the whole thing. But you could program the tracks. So like, you could program, a record, a CD album, and you could skip over stuff where you can put the songs in whatever order you want it, which was kind of empowering, and then eventually, of course, when you get to mp3, you can now just create your own playlist and something like Spotify.

I mean, think about this, too. When you like an artist, and you go by their vision, and by what they say now this, these are the songs that go together in this order. Juliette: Yeah, I get that. Nick: That was a huge shift in kind of American culture. But, I always used to think about it, I really liked watching the Charlie Brown, Christmas special, but it would be on once a year.

And you can even chop it up and record it and play it back and do all kinds of modifications to add. Nick: Yes, it can be very annoying, right? And we all have different tastes. Juliette: Yeah. How do we stand now, on the independence front?

But some of them are libertarian, some of them are not. Or are you independent? And it might have been in the high 30s, low 40s that identified as Republican. When you look now, and this has been declining ever since. The independents have been the single largest group, for a couple of decades now. So the Republican Party is much more conservative in a very narrow and cramped way than, you know, than it used to be, the Democratic Party is much more kind of liberal or progressive in a way that it was in 50 years ago.

How does that group of independents and libertarians fit in? They are not exactly the same thing. But there is one of the connections is that generally speaking, people in America are increasingly kind of socially tolerant. And a large number of Americans are also fiscally conservative meaning or fiscally responsible, meaning that they think the government should be you know, spending less money and doing fewer things.

At the time of the publication of the paper edition, I am a fan of paper additions. This is why history is fascinating, the creation of the paperback book, which was vastly cheaper, started coming up in the early 20th century, and, like the 30s, and 40s. And especially after World War Two, but paperback books were much cheaper, meaning that more people could read them and afford them. Nick Gillespie spoke about the election campaign, the role libertarian ideas were playing in the campaign, and….

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Like I said, I obviously have different ideological preferences than Gillespie and other libertarians. But he isn't serving his audience very well. He's a pretty good writer, but he doesn't understand these issues at all. He thinks he can make up for his lack of understanding by relying on a co-author who, by dint of her total fealty to libertarian dogma and the ability to throw around a few numbers, has him convinced she knows what she's talking about.

In reality she's a total hack. I really advise Gillespie to confine himself to subjects he understands motorcycles?

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser and improve your visit to our site. I think he genuinely does not understand the article he co-authored: While the Warner Wolf in me wants to say "Let's go to the videotape" watch above!

This lays out, in pretty clear detail I think, how you can make small, systematic cuts to bring projected total federal outlays in into line with 19 percent of expected GDP the amount the CBO says will be in play. In the above, we lay out what 3. I wonder if Chait is willing to name any functions of the federal government that he thinks we can live without?

Maybe the two ongoing wars that his magazine happily supported at least until recently. Maybe the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which gives relatively wealthy seniors free or reduced-price drugs regardless of ability to pay?

Indeed, why not take a longer look at Medicare in toto, a program that former Obama adviser Christina Romer has said wastes 30 percent of its funds?

In response, Gillespie offers more hand-waving:. Yes, it's true that the wealthy have been getting a bigger share of income growth for a long time. Nobody disputes that and indeed, I pointed out as much in my post.