California GOP Assembly Leader Kristin Olson Takes Libertarianism to its Logical Extension

      Which is not surprising as libertarians take things to the extreme. The absurdity of their position is shown by how taking things to their true logical absurdity. Ms. Olson has been in the news lately. She thinks that it should be really difficult to register to vote as this would make people appreciate voting more. 

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/gop-will-fix-aca-right-after-they-fix.html

     Yes, the government should play hard to get with voters. That's democracy. Of course, Ms. Olson as a GOPer in California hardly wants to increase voting. Her party's only hope is to decrease it as much as humanly possible. 

     This is consistent with libertarianism-those in this school really don't like voting and would rather keep it to an absolute minimum. 

     "The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events."

     http://www.amazon.com/Democracy---God-That-Failed-Perspectives/dp/0765808684/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434808693&sr=1-1-fkmr3&keywords=herman+hoppe+democracy+the+god+that+failed

     See also:

     http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies-ebook/dp/B007AIXLDI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434809203&sr=1-1&keywords=Bryan+caplan&pebp=1434809204815&perid=1Z5QZXRJEM9G1696CX7C

     http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1621380068/ref=sr_1_1?p=S00U&keywords=herman+hoppe+democracy+the+god+that+failed&ie=UTF8&qid=1434808849

     http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Order-Future-Structure-Society-ebook/dp/B00W86HVSI/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434808849&sr=1-2&keywords=herman+hoppe+democracy+the+god+that+failed

    http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Order-Future-Structure-Society-ebook/dp/B00W86HVSI/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434808849&sr=1-2&keywords=herman+hoppe+democracy+the+god+that+failed

     That's right: monarchy failed, but democracy has failed even worse. If you believe that why not depress voting as much as you can?

     So in trying to limit voting as much as possible, Ms. Olson is merely being a good libertarian-as well as doing the only thing that can help the California GOP as democracy is death for it. Employing this same logic she comes to the conclusion that are liberty is imperiled by vaccinations. This is not a new idea from the Right. Chris Christie got himself embroiled in this earlier in the year. 

    http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/chris-christie-vaccinations-114825.html

    To be sure this may have been him trying to get the focus on something other than Bridgegate. 

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/01/politics/bridget-kelly-breaks-silence-david-wildstein-liar/

    As Michael Lind says there aren't as many new ideas as you might think. Most of both good and bad ideas have already been thought of. 

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/michael-lind-on-lack-of-new-ideas-in.html

    Anyway, vaccinations-like the Common Core-are imperiling our freedom-though monarchy and absolute religion did not. 

    "Earlier this year, a massive outbreak of measles at Disneyland, infecting 147 people before it was contained. Though there has been a measles vaccine for more than five decades, the Disneyland incident (and a rise in other similar outbreaks across the country) was traced back to pockets of parents who refused to vaccinate their children, known as anti-vaxxers. As a result, many stateshave since taken up legislation to make it harder for parents to skip vaccines."

     "One such bill in California, SB 277, would remove the “personal belief exemption” that currently allows parents who oppose vaccines wholesale to avoid getting their children immunized. The opt-out rate in California, based largely on misinformation about the supposed link between vaccines and conditions like autism, has doubled in the past seven years. In one Berkeley kindergarten, for instance, the personal belief exemption is so widely used that 7 in 8 children aren’t vaccinated."

     "According to State Assembly GOP Leader Kristin Olsen, however, the idea of requiring vaccinations for children in public and private schools “erodes parental rights.” In an interview on the Broeske & Musson radio program last week, Olsen declared that, despite the Disneyland outbreak, “there’s really no need for this bill whatsoever,” dismissing it as an “emotional reaction” to a “one-time incident.”

      “I think this is an example of people overreacting to incidences,” Olsen told the hosts. “What we need to make sure in Sacramento is we’re making decisions based on logic and sound data.”

     http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/06/16/3670002/kristin-olsen-vaccines/

    Yes, parents need the right to stop their kids from getting measles vaccinations. This makes me think of when the Right defends parents whose children died because they didn't want to take them to the doctor-Christian Scientists, et al. 

     http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/02/religious_exemption_for_vaccines_christian_scientists_catholics_and_dutch.html

     So this is what liberty means to libertarians. They have their answer to the Charleston killings too: do nothing and let the problem fester. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/shocking-hate-crime-in-south-carolina.html

     I see now that some libertarians are arguing that conservatives should finally give up eschew the Confederate flag. 

    "The invocation of "states rights" among those waving the Confederate flag while fighting for the evils of slavery and segregation has been devastating to the cause of limited government."

    "Not only were the institutions themselves an affront to liberty, but in fighting to defeat the institutions, the federal government claimed more power. And to this day, when any conservative tries to make a principled argument in favor of returning more power to the states, they have to grapple with the fact that for many Americans, such arguments are tainted by their historical association with slavery and segregation."

     http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-conservatives-should-hate-the-confederate-flag/article/2566609

    From a purely marketing standpoint it might make states rights somewhat more respectable on the margins. Of course this is not a good thing as it doesn't deserve to be respectable. To try to distance themselves from the Confederate flag they might be able to mislead some mainstream not very thoughtful people. I don't agree that in truth the support for the Confederacy can in any way be separated from states rights.