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"Politics is the art of the possible" - Otto Von Bismark
Glenn Greenwald: An Interview with The Art of the Possible
This post is a “sibling” post to my post on political gatekeepers at Freedom Democrats. Please check it out as well, although the theme is the same the points are different. This post focuses on gatekeepers in the libertarian movement, or the lack thereof, while the Freedom Democrats post focuses on liberal gatekeepers online.
The sad case of Cory Maye probably needs no introduction at this blog. A struggling father trying to make ends meet in the poor rural South, Cory Maye defended himself, his home, and his 18 month old daughter by using deadly force against an unknown intruder. Under most circumstances, the case would be closed in acknowledgment that Cory Maye was simply exercising his constitutional rights. But, unfortunately, the unknown intruder turned out to be a white police officer and Cory Maye is black. The rest . . .
Libertarianism, of the non-anarchic variety, has typically favored a decentralized and federalist approach to government. Modern liberalism tends to take the opposite view, favoring centralized government. In the former, federalism protects you from the tyranny of the national government and decentralization enables you to move around and force local and state governments to compete. In the latter, centralization allows for a uniform protection of your civil liberties across the nation and for the local minority to be protected by local majorities. Ideally.
Greetings to the readers of the Art of the Possible. Some of you may know me from the blog Freedom Democrats, an online community occupying the niche of libertarianism within the Democratic Party. For those readers who are encountering me for the first time, I have been an amateur activist in libertarianism, the Democratic Party, and blogging off and on for several years now. I am very thankful for the opportunity to blog here at the Art of the Possible and wanted to take advantage of the timing of Mona’s most recent blog post on this site’s purpose to introduce myself, and my views, more fully.