My Mother Is A Fish

The Myth of the Kerry Calamity by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Rockwell contrasts the guiding motives of Republicans and Democrats in the seats of power and finds sound reason for preferring a Democratic executive, of the two:

[Democrats] have the strongest interest in keeping government functioning well, which implies balancing the budget, cleaning house, stamping out corruption, maintaining some semblance of order and peace, not doing things that utterly discredit bureaucracies, finding fixes to make things work a bit better for themselves and their friends, etc. As the most direct owners of the state, they have the strongest interest in its health and well-being.

It's as though the Bush administration knows it has only at most a few more years to loot the world, and so it had better do it quick.

I wonder, in passing, if this rationale, though informed by knowledge of facts of history rather than social-science laws, may suggest anything about, first, the more rapid degeneration of Hitler's statee than of Stalin's, and second, the impulse often found among libertarians to defend the principle, not only moral but also economic, that the rightful owners of the state's property may reclaim it as though it were unappropriated. I wonder: and then I feel foolish.