tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post5724178652623805239..comments2024-03-29T10:51:27.752+13:00Comments on Not PC: The three most pressing threats to liberty todayPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-71096299527312032462016-12-12T04:48:42.036+13:002016-12-12T04:48:42.036+13:00Don't forget Viktor Orban nationalised Hungari...Don't forget Viktor Orban nationalised Hungarians' private pension funds and has effectively taken over the main broadcasters to be entirely placid. The EU of course has done little to change this. At best he has undermined the neo-Nazi Jobbik movement, but at worst he's done so by emulating some of its policies. Having said that, controlling its border with Serbia isn't a negative in my books given the absolute disaster of the German approach to the refugee crisis.Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-34140621046027627672016-12-11T13:38:56.378+13:002016-12-11T13:38:56.378+13:00Oh God, there’s a spectre is haunting the world ...Oh God, there’s a spectre is haunting the world : the CATO institute of the elitist libertarian bible again<br />Populism <br />Lets go with Populism as the intellectual Michael Kazin defines. :: <br /> <a rel="nofollow"> “a language whose speakers conceive of ordinary people as a noble assemblage not bounded narrowly by class,<br /> view their elite opponents as self-serving and undemocratic, and seek to mobilise the former against the latter.” </a><br />So far so good, and <br /><a rel="nofollow"> “”The normal tendency of such movements is to follow a charismatic leader who, in his or her own person, embodies the people and focuses the popular will.” </a><br /><br />Although this CATO institute doctrinaire is somewhere in an Office in North America side we could apply this description to John Key.<br />So what are the bogeyman dangers of the man Populist as he “kicked cans down the road “for ten years.<br />Maybe he will re-emerge as Governor General soft cuck within the Republic and insist on a Waitangi Treaty Trick Constitution<br />No/?.<br /><br />Or maybe the Blogger here is referring to the demented Gareth Morgan who with 5% of useful idiots could along with Hone and Mana // Maori bring the <br />Mother fuckers” to our knees. <br />No/?<br /><br />Scratch a libertarian and you will find a progressive.<br />Populism means bad, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, insular., uneducated, old, too stupid, a spectre is haunting the world.<br />Bla bla bla what Populism means is what libertarian wants it to mean, in this case, Winston Peters.<br />tough<br />Nationalism and National borders, New Zealanders before Immigrants and Islam refugees, and social justice garbage, coming at you ready or not.<br />paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-28961345115721164312016-12-11T08:36:32.949+13:002016-12-11T08:36:32.949+13:00Wow, anonymous, I'm impressed by your detailed...Wow, anonymous, I'm impressed by your detailed and utterly compelling argument. Richard McGrathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-38820787186212243702016-12-10T18:26:01.152+13:002016-12-10T18:26:01.152+13:00kill yourself cress well, and the world will be a ...kill yourself cress well, and the world will be a little happier and we will have more sanity Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-16660724945818794452016-12-10T09:10:56.936+13:002016-12-10T09:10:56.936+13:00Excellent piece, I'd add the radical environme...Excellent piece, I'd add the radical environmentalists as well, but the identity politics mob are the same tribe, but with different tactics.Libertyscotthttp://libertyscott.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-81127188154779176512016-12-10T08:49:44.766+13:002016-12-10T08:49:44.766+13:00Again we see "Radical Islam" as opposed ...Again we see "Radical Islam" as opposed to just Islam. <br /><br />Even the apparent freedom lovers are lost.Richard Wiighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014802233741921087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-91747799616087108782016-12-10T02:12:19.300+13:002016-12-10T02:12:19.300+13:00Mandatory reading. Tom G Palmer is great and gets ...Mandatory reading. Tom G Palmer is great and gets to the guts of this issue. tombrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09732461742852856893noreply@blogger.com