Celebrating the death of another human being degrades who we are as a people and the value of human life.
Here is a private truth.
Bin Laden committed mass murder against the American people. Justice was necessary and deserved.
Even still, the mass celebration surrounding his death made me uncomfortable because celebrating death changes our character as a people.
Today, we see how the culture of life in America has degraded to the point where not only the deaths of our foreign enemies are celebrated, but also our domestic political opponents.
Watching the left celebrate Rush Limbaugh's death reminds me of the same culture of political violence they have increasingly celebrated over the last four years.
It reminds me of every leftist who has celebrated violent attacks on Rand Paul --- without any reprisal from the corporate media establishment.
It reminds me of the Bernie Sanders supporter gunman at the baseball field trying to murder Republican Congressmen.
It reminds me of the violent riots that have shaken our cities as small businesses have been burned to the ground.
And yet the Washington Machine points fingers at conservatives, saying we are the violent ones.
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The key difference between Marxists and Rothbardians:
Marxists view capitalism as a centralizing force.
Rothbardians view capitalism as a decentralizing force.
Marxists see capitalism akin to gravity — capital attracting more capital, all the wealth gradually concentrating in the hands of the few.
They believe an outside force (sometimes government) is needed to counter this and redistribute the wealth.
Rothbardians view aggression generally (most prominently, the aggression of state power) as the force that concentrates wealth and power in the hands of a few.
We see capitalism as a force akin to entropy — challenging that centralization through the power of the market.
Days like today remind me why we need thorium nuclear power.
Thorium Power is safe, clean, renewable and affordable.
A single bowling ball of thorium is the energy equivalent of an oil supertanker — and there is enough in the ground to power human civilization at current levels beyond the lifespan of the sun.
If we allow socialism and nationalism to become our guiding stars in 2020s America as they became in 1920s Europe — recent history can tell us what the next few decades will look like.
To nationalists, remember that America is great — not for its own sake — but because of our founding ideals for Liberty and Justice.
To socialists, remember that the pursuit of Liberty has done more to promote the welfare of the common man than any system in human history.