The guy who had serious reservations about the Civil Rights Act, thinks businesses have the right not to serve people based on their race, and employed the "Southern Avenger" might endorse the guy who wants to build a wall on the border and impose a shutdown of Muslims entering America?
I generally enjoy your posting, but please refrain from peddling slanderous bullsh**t that Rand Paul is a racist because he doesn't believe in the ridiculous mularkey that government can cure bigotry by taking control of who businesses can serve or not. I'll also clarify that he only objected to part of the Civil Rights Act, for small government reasons, not racism.
Sorry, but I'm really sick of this idea that someone is a racist--which is a terrible thing to call a person if it isn't true--if they don't believe in the cult of almighty government (an institution that has directly caused so much racism and hatred throughout history) as a fairy that can magically solve every problem. It's equivalent to religious people saying you must be religious to have morality.
I have no idea if Rand Paul is a racist in his heart of hearts, nor Donald Trump for that matter. I suspect they, like 99% of humanity, fall somewhere in between Abraham Luther Gandhi Jr. and David Duke in that regard. You're right that he objected to only part of the Civil Rights Act for "small government" reasons - but the specific part he objected to was whether the government's duty to ensure equal protection supersedes the right of business owners to deny service
specifically on racial grounds. Just as Donald Trump can support building a wall on the border with Mexico purely to fight drugs, crime, and rape, and
not at all to pander to racial resentment of Hispanics.
My point was that Paul, like Trump play the same games of pandering to resentful whites. And lest you think I'm biased, I admit Hillary definitely made some of the same overtures in '08, and Sanders has tried from time to time to do the same as well. Furthermore, I'll give Rand Paul credit for trying to pull a fast one and also pander to black students at Howard University simultaneously as he employed the Southern Avenger and defended him from media attacks.
Also, since I've been being pretty negative on Libertarians recently, I want to make clear: I have no beef with libertarianism, and I can embrace a heck of a lot more about it than I can of conservatism. I just think the Libertarian Party, and to some extent the libertarian movement as it currently stands is just kind of sad in a funny way - a bit like Jeb Bush for the last few months of his campaign.
