Barry Goldwater was Wrong
Sep. 10th, 2015 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akirlu"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." --Barry Goldwater
This sounded good when I was younger. I called myself a libertarian back then. But looking around me these days and observing various internet flame wars, the state of Congressional politics, and all the other places where unbending extremism exacerbates disagreements and completely undermines the possibility of communication, I now think that extremism in defense of pretty much anything is precisely that: vicious.
This sounded good when I was younger. I called myself a libertarian back then. But looking around me these days and observing various internet flame wars, the state of Congressional politics, and all the other places where unbending extremism exacerbates disagreements and completely undermines the possibility of communication, I now think that extremism in defense of pretty much anything is precisely that: vicious.
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