"A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged."
-- common bit of modern American folk wisdom
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
-- Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, supposedly quoting another common bit of modern American folk wisdom
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Monday, September 13, 2010
wisdom?
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what about libertarians?
ReplyDeleteGood question. I think you'll have to invent the expression.
ReplyDeleteA libertarian is an anarchist who's been...?
(...taxed?)
a mentally taxed anarchist...
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