The Zman’s theory of everything, Parts II and I

Gems.

“Hearing a guy like Paul Ryan say, ‘proactively leverage other’s high standards in infrastructures’ generates warm thoughts of Gavrilo Princip.

“Anyway, I slowly came to the conclusion that the whole Right-Left dynamic was just a myth. One of things about working in Washington, even briefly, is you learn quickly that politics is nothing like you see on TV. Two people on a show ripping one another apart will be at the bar after the show yukking it up like old pals. That’s because they are old pals. The Right-Left narrative has simply become a convenient framework for the reality show called politics. This has been true since the 80’s.”

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“The men of the Tidewater who crafted (the Constitution) understood that we needed a strong central government for managing trade, national defense and the courts. At the same time, they knew the Puritan lunatics in New England would immediately try to pervert the national government so they could dominate the rest of the country. James Madison had no illusions about the nature of John Adams. The result was a government based on Negative Liberty.”

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