How to shut up a marxist (Jordan Peterson speech)
28 Jan 2018 2 Comments
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism, Twitter left
#BDS should lead by example
26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in international economic law, International law Tags: BDS, Israel, Twitter left
Speaking of modesty feminism
16 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, Twitter left
#livingwage movement just can’t handle the truth @LWEmployerNZ
27 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: conjecture and refutation, critical discussion, crybaby left, living wage, Twitter left
Looks like the living wage movement will not be taking up my challenge for a public debate anytime soon.
When @JeremyCorbyn talks more sense on #Syrianbombing than @NZGreens
07 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: anti-war movement, British politics, foreign policy, Leftover Left, Middle-East politics, New Zealand Greens, pacifism, serious civil war, Twitter left
Spot the extremist
05 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Blasphemy, Leftover Left, regressive left, religious toleration, Twitter left
Feminists’ cultural relativism betray #InternationalWomensDay, the Age of Enlightenment and the superiority of Western values
30 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of religion, gender, labour economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, feminism, International women's, Leftover Left, regressive left, Twitter left
Why protest the inauguration of the weakest GOP president in modern times?
21 Jan 2017 2 Comments
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, Leftover Left, Twitter left
Those denouncing Trump forget he is the weakest newly elected GOP president in modern times. Trump’s polarising nature rules out his popularity going up that much.
His erratic nature means that his administration will perform poorly because those he appoints to make up his administration, all 4000 of them, do not know what Trump wants because that changes every day. Trump will have to arbitrate all disputes within his administration.
Congress will desert him as soon as it hurts their re-election chances in 2018 where a great many Republican Senate seats are up because they won back the Senate in 2012.
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Trump is even weaker than average because a good part of his base do not otherwise vote in elections or they are registered Democrats. This makes his disgruntled base less of a threat in the 2018 Republican primaries.
Trump can only afford to lose 2 Republican senators. The Democratic Senate caucus will be united because opportunities if they can only pick up two Republican votes in the current Senate.
Trump will be an inept President but more socially liberal than any recent GOP president. Protest that.
Before you start on the fact that Trump won the electoral college but not the popular vote, remember the John Kerry to this day believes election fraud in Ohio deprived him of the presidency in 2004 despite losing the popular vote by about 3 million votes. Winning Ohio would have flipped that election.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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