And while I'm in a posty mood...

[cyrano]

What conservatives are calling themselves these days, and why it doesn't mean what they think it means.
Link borrowed from Matthew Smith, and dedicated to my friends who are actual libertarians.

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[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

This is not new - George Will said that it was fair to say that conservatism believed that the 20th century was a mistake.

Libertarians will clarify, if asked, that they know there were injustices in 1880, and that they only consider it a golden age if one happened to be a property-owning white man. Of course, the reign of Louis XIV was an even goldener age, if one happened to be Louis XIV; I don't quite know why they don't admit to preferring that.

There have been even more entertaining right-libertarian articles recently, like the "girls ruin everything" essay (http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-education-of-a-libertarian/) that James Nicoll linked to a few days ago, where the writer pegs the Decline Of Us to 1920, when women (a constituency "notoriously tough for libertarians" for some reason) got the right to vote. (In fairness, he also adds "welfare beneficiaries" to those who got power over the right-thinking ubermenschen around the same time. That's not code for anything, oh no. The Voting Rights Act wasn't till 1965.)