We are all Slave now.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

I like the way that Williamson waits until the very end to make it clear that no matter how libertarian he says he is, he is a conservative at heart. A whole litany of Republican offenses against libertarianism, but with one throwaway phrase, a hyperbolic overriding of a single op-ed, he manages to equate the two parties. No matter how bad the Republican Party gets on his issues, he's not willing to cross over.

He does admit earlier that the Democrats are now the party of free trade. It's a start.

You and Williamson share a pathological need to find some excuse to never admit that Democrats are better on important things you profess to care about.

Democrats are better on a number of issues. I've never argued otherwise:

1. Almost all social issues;
2. Justice reform (except when they cave to the tough-on-crime crowd a week before voting day, as often seems to be the case);
3. Environment

I cross over. Hell, I voted for John Kerry.

But this doesn't undo the fact that, in aggregate, in general character, both parties are defined by and filled with groups of people who wish to compel others to live as they want them to live. That's authoritarian.