Daily Archives: 2 March 2016

Eli Harmon on going from Libertarian to Nationalist

I didn’t start out racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic or any of that.

I was just an easy going libertarian who wanted to live and let live.

But at a certain point, I could no longer deny that I was under constant, relentless, systematic and deliberate assault, on every dimension (moral, ideological, political, demographic, cultural, physical, economic…) because of my race, because of gender, because of my sexual orientation, because of my nationality, because of my ethnicity, because of my regional culture, because of what religion I wasn’t, and so on and so forth.

And being as these don’t seem likely to stop, I had to look around, for others who might stand with me against this encroaching tide of darkness. And those others are racist, sexist, antisemitic, bigoted, straight, white, men (and a few others who only check *most* of those boxes.)

You drew the battle lines. I only chose my side.

Kasparov lectured by Sanders supporters

I’m enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty. Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd.