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June 24, 2006

Kos Learns About Coalitions?

Kos says something I actually agree with. Wanna maximize your personal freedom? Vote Democrat.

In fact, we offer more real freedom and choice than at least one prominent former libertarian would: Ron Paul came out for the gay marriage amendment, and is anti-choice on abortion.

Perry de Havilland disagrees on Samizdata, but I think he misses an important point. He says:

And there you have one of the classical error of the left: the idea that corporations have great power to coerce in and of themselves. . . . Large corporations can coerce people because they can manipulate excessively mighty state power.

That theory fails to explain Microsoft, because before the 90s antitrust trial, MS stayed far from DC, but yet, somehow, they succeeded in effectively limiting consumer choice. Even now, they still accomplish this by keeping a grip on all big PC suppliers. When MS has had to worry about competition, they treated customers much better than at present.

This is an interesting evolution for Kos, as it seems to me like an attempt to reach out to us centrists than another blast against the GOP. Is he finally starting to care about winning a bit?

Posted by Jon Kay at June 24, 2006 12:22 AM
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Gee, those "Liberatarian Democrats" sound a whole lot like populists to me. Somewhere, Lakoff is smiling.

Kos has been trying to broaden the Kos field while not alienating his hard-left support. There's no real room to move farther left (at least not while improving the numbers) so he has to move towards the middle. For all his whinging about the DLC, that's the direction he's heading.

Posted by: Tully at June 24, 2006 12:53 PM

Kos is going to end up being eaten by his own. He is beginning to think that he can really have power and so is becoming more realistic. His left-wing friends will fry him before long.

Of course, it's not clear that Kos himself has ever been that far left; he is more of a partisan than an ideologue and he has been able to placate his followers by equating partisanship with leftism. Eventually, he won't be able to square the circle.

Posted by: Marc at June 28, 2006 03:05 PM

I feel the need to note that the last Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik was also pro-life. If you believe the unborn child is a human then even libertarianism teaches it should be protected from those who wish to end his or her life.

His support for the FMA is a bit surprising as far as libertarianism goes. Until Democrats take shrinking the government seriously and start supporting issues such as personal retirement accounts, I don't think this libertarian D thing is going to win over any new converts. It's just emphasizing their social issues rather than their economic ones. Except perhaps on guns, the Ds haven't really changed their position.

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