Why should we worry abouy people saying things like this?
So I don’t—I, I—I’m worried about this, it’s why I have fantasized—don’t get me wrong—but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment. I don’t want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness.
Or this?
It would be good…if (Obama) could be dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly.
Well, the reason is, sometimes the elite intellectual authoritarian fantasizing gets out of hand:
I’m staring to think that liberal pundits aren’t into this whole constitutional republic thing. : Scary Libertarian on 06.16.2010
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