Ah, Rand Paul. Thanks, dude
So this Rand Paul character wins the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky. For a seat left in contention thanks to the resignation of the really good baseball player and, arguably, lousy Senator Bunning.
Rand Paul is a self-identified libertarian, and has, now, exposed some of the problems I have always had with libertarians. Chiefly, the libertarian idea that the occult hand of the market will correct errors — any kind of errors.
The spot where young Dr. Paul has gotten into trouble lately is on civil rights legislation; he has given the impression that he feels that having the government step in and tell business owners that they can’t refuse service to customers based on, oh, whatever, is wrong and that the market will punish said business owners perfectly adequately.
He seems to think that having the government telling business owners that black people have to be treated like, er, people is redundant, what as these businesses will go out of business if their business practices are, what? Unsound?
Seriously, WTF? Has this motherfucker ever been to Mississippi?