Election Day

Nock "recognized no substantive difference between the various governments clashing during World War II. 'Rooseveltism, Hitlerism, Stalinism, are all only local variants of the common doctrine that man has no natural rights but only such as are created for him by the state . . . [this is] State absolutism, formulated by the German idealist philosophers.'" Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism

I fear we're all Rooseveltians now, however. Hence my disdain for voting. Given a choice between Hitler and Stalin, I vote neither. I know, I know: such hyperbolic rhetoric costs me credibility, but there's a strong (too strong, I maintain) strain of truth in the rhetoric. I will vote today, but only because a 28-year-old "kid" is on the verge of becoming our state representative and I want to support him.