10-10-2018, 03:18 PM
(10-10-2018, 10:14 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-10-2018, 03:16 AM)Galen Wrote:(10-09-2018, 05:18 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Maybe if we got another warmonger president who wanted to institute the draft again? That was a big motivator for us boomers when young to vote and work for candidates like McGovern. Maybe the young people need to feel the hand of the state upon their backs a lot harder. Right now it's just a bit too invisible.
That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Boomers, despite the rhetoric, were always about saving their own asses. Couldn't really be bothered to worry about anyone else.
Obviously, you need a class on irony.
One thing Xers get is irony. Check out some of the charity work that goes on and you will see a surprising number of Xers.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises