As the virtual campaign moves into it's "feet on the ground" phase and becomes an exercise of beat the clock, it was nice yesterday to stop into the Campaign HQ in Niverville and see everyone working.
The addition of Chris Edes has been a good one. Chris brings a more youthful perspective. Too often Libertarians are thought of as a group of old curmudgeons in tweed jackets complaining about things.
The addition of Chris and a group of other 20-somethings informs me that the ideas and issues bought up by this campaign resonate with the upcoming generation of citizens & taxpayers who will be handed the payment book for the bailout.
As Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises, "the bill always comes".
I recently read in Slate a perfect summary about how we got here: "The '80s did for money what the '60s did for sex. They told a miraculously tempting lie about the curative powers of disinhibition. It took AIDS, feminism, and sociobiology a while to catch up to our illusions about free love. It has taken cronyism, speculation, and manic overleveraging a while to catch up to our illusions about free money."
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