Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America by Nick Gillespie
Usually when people talk about "moderates" or a "third way" they are taking a political stance similar to the Democratic party ca. 1976 — which was not all that different from that of the Republican Party ca. 1976.
And when libertarians get going, they often start out strong — the government that governs best governs least — and then flounder on the reefs of legalizing all illegal drugs, or adopting a McGovernish foreign policy. (See Ron Paul.)
These guys, from Reason magazine, are charting a third way that is based not as much on doctrine as on youth and technology.
The gist is that younger voters today approach politics like consumers. And they are jamming the servers with complaints about the slothful, wasteful and dopey government.
What, they ask several times, is so difficult about the concept that we are broke?
What indeed.
With bonus insight into the importance of the Velvet Underground, which should be a clue that this is not the ordinary political book.
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