Not my words, but Ann Coulter’s. She call libertarians pussies for demanding pot legalization while (according to Coulter) downplaying their views on employment discrimination, and she also says they are guilty of groupthink (which she claims is destroying libertarian pussies):
I hate groupthink. And the libertarians have it every bit as much as the college liberals I speak to.
Well, I hate groupthink too. I can’t recall how many blog posts I have devoted to the subject, but it has long been one of my pet peeves. Get enough people together in a group, and the ability to think independently and logically deteriorates rapidly. Libertarians are no more immune than any other group, although they should be more ashamed of themselves when they find themselves succumbing. One of the most annoying aspects of the phenomenon involves not so much pussiness, though, but the ratcheting up of rhetoric and passions in order to prove that one is a real, more principled member of whatever group it is than everyone else. Factor in the natural competition factor, and the more and more ridiculous and out of touch with reality the given group becomes. I have had the misfortune of sitting through angry libertarian shoutfests over “principles” and I can remember one argument involving whether (as a matter of “principle”) handguns should be allowed to be sold in elementary school vending machines. Something that just plain Ain’t Going To Happen.
It would not surprise me that if you got a bunch of red-meat Ann Coulter fans together in a room, the same sort of ratcheting up of rhetoric would happen.
But would they be pussies too? I doubt they could consider themselves that. In fact I think they would call themselves “manly” or “muscular” and accuse libertarians of being pussies and “squishes.”
But if groupthink constitutes pussydom, then whichever side engages in the most groupthink becomes the bigger pussies.
Which pussies win? Red meat principled real conservative pussies? Or angry fanatic libertarian pussies?
I honestly don’t know the answer. But I think it’s clear that pussyhood is powerful!
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Well I’m no panty waist. I can lick those pussies.
This from the woman who cheered for that paragon of conservative values, Mitt Romney.
Libertarians may be pussies, but Ann Coulter is a different name for the same thing.
Advice for Ann Coulter –
Avoid bitch fights with gay libertarians, sweetie.
“but the ratcheting up of rhetoric and passions in order to prove that one is a real, more principled member of whatever group it is than everyone else.”
A few minutes reading the comments to posts over at reason.com and you will be drowning in this sort of thing. Similarly at Huffington post. Whatever little reasoned discussion there is is easily drowned out with immature fanaticism.
On a related note, what kind of nut do you have to be to feel the need to add comment 28,527 to a thread already having 28,526 comments?
National Review’s corner started allowing comments fairly recently. At first, comments were quite good, I thought. But they are quickly heading for the same equilibrium as reason and huffington. It’s rather depressing.