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Secondary Generalist is a microblog maintained by me, Mike Russell. I am a researcher and graduate student at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

Secondary Generalist is my place for thoughts that are too large for Twitter and too serious for Facebook. This page where I store links for myself, talk about education, and cultivate ideas that may one day become publications. Also, there are occasional posts about cycling, multisport, or Cardinals baseball.

Jason Brennan at Bleeding Heart Libertarians is ready to pick a fight:

Dear members of the moderate left,

America is suffering from rampant, run-away corporatism and crony capitalism. We are increasingly a plutocracy in which government serves the interests of elite financiers and CEOs at the expense of everyone else.

You know this and you complain loudly about it. But the problem is your fault. You caused this state of affairs. Stop it.

Unlike we libertarianish people, you people actually hold and have been holding significant political power in the US over the past 50 years. What have you done with this power? You’ve greased the corporatist machine every chance you’ve gotten. You’ve made things worse, not better. Our current problems are your fault. You need to stop.

We told you this would happen, but you wouldn’t listen. You complain, rightly, that regulatory agencies are controlled by the very corporations they are supposed to constrain. Well, yeah, we told you that would happen. When you create power—and you people love to create power—the unscrupulous seek to capture that power for their personal benefit. Time and time again, they succeed. We told you that would happen, and we gave you an accurate account of how it would happen.

Boom:

It’s not rocket science. It’s public choice economics.

Of course it’s preaching to the choir, but well put and worth a read. The comments are, predictably, not worth even a glance.

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