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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Steven Hayward brought up Alec Baldwin’s analysis of Anthony Weiner. As ridiculous as it is, it gets to the heart of what’s wrong with our politics. That’s to say:(from nationalreview.com)He exists under a constant pressure cooker of self-analysis and public appraisal. Like other politicians, he needs something to take the edge off… For high functioning men like Weiner and other officials ...The governing class are not “high functioning men”. Function-wise, they’ve been abysmal: Collectively, they’ve beggared the nation. While you low-functioning types were busy going off to work every day and providing for your family like a bunch of saps, lifetime politicians like Weiner – the Emirs of Incumbistan – comprehensively wrecked everything they touched, squandering this country’s inheritance and lining it up for an imminent existential crisis those on the receiving end will have to figure some way out of.
Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey" (1934)
The SCOTUS rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (1966)
The U.S. withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (2002)
b: Anton Drexler (1884); d: Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1972)