Collective Conscious

It’s twenty min­utes of clas­sic talk-​​show drub­bing by Rachel Mad­dow. For some­body who’s just been forced by his PR guy to read all about civil rights in prepa­ra­tion for this inter­view, you would think he would have the slight­est idea when to exer­cise his own right to silence. But no. Watch him writhe:

The blow­back from GOP leader Mitch McConnell is sim­ply sav­age as well: “[McConnell] has always con­sid­ered the [Civil Rights] law a mon­u­men­tal achieve­ment for the coun­try and is glad to hear Dr. Paul sup­ports it as well.”

This is more than a petty PR cockup for Dr. Paul, how­ever. This is a man who gen­uinely doesn’t believe that we as a peo­ple have the right to get together in Con­gress and say, “You know, maybe it should be ille­gal for schools to reject your kids, or mine, just based on what color their skin is. That’s the sort of soci­ety most of us want to have.”

This is more than a petty PR cockup for Dr. Paul, however.

No: the extreme vari­ant of lib­er­tar­i­an­ism to which the Paul fam­ily sub­scribes is appar­ently the sort which holds that the free­dom to swing your fist does not end at the other man’s nose: it’s as long as you can reach.