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NYT: Tea Party reading Hayek, Bastiat, and Rand

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And yet these people have no trouble with Karl Marx. Um, isn't he one of those dead white males we're supposed to be shoving down the memory hole?

There you go, thinking logically. Can't have any of that. Invented by dead white males and all...

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And here is the follow up piece in the New York Observer warning of the impending "Austrian craze" which of course is responsible for a guy's house burning down:

The Ideologies Behind the Ideologues

http://www.observer.com/2010/opinion/ideologies-behind-ideologues

Why should European ideologies of the far right suddenly become fashionable among citizens who so blithely accuse the White House of importing "socialist" policies from abroad?

After all, these are foreign ideas! Foreign!

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After all, these are foreign ideas! Foreign!

Heh... right. We must be xenophobes who object to the person who thought up the ideas, rather than the contents of the ideas themselves. These people are so stunted by pragmatism that they have no choice but to reduce everything to character and personality.

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