re: #406 RogueOne

I gave you a +1 because I was jokingly calling you a statist, but lets face it you do have statist leanings. You can’t help it, it’s part of liberal culture.

First of all, there’s no such thing as ‘liberal culture’. Second of all, by that criteria, everyone’s a statist— everyone believes a state is necessary. Other than anarchists. The extent to which they think the state should have domain is scalar, not ideological.

Find me any other justice that votes more often than Thomas in limiting federal power and for the individual over the state and I’ll drop him into second place on my good justice list. Right now that position is vacant anyway. He’s not perfect but since I know I’m never going to get an actual libertarian on the court I’ll take what I can get.

I’m simply pointing out that on every police vs. citizen decision he’s made, he’s on the side of the police. Thus me saying that he’s the most libertarian if you ignore those decisions— I happen to feel that particular power dynamic is one of the most absolutely important to any ‘libertarian’ ideal.