One of the ads on the right side of Instapundit just caught my eye. In it, an attractive model wears a T-shirt that reads:
The C in ACLU is a hammer and sickle.
Since when is communism anti-state? And since when do conservatives, much less self-styled libertarians, consider “enemy of the state” a pejorative?
- The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism. Whereas the conservative middle class once cheered the circumscribing of the federal government, it now celebrates power and adores the central state, particularly its military wing.
Of course, no one ever accused these people of ideological coherence.
Other shirts from the same site: Peace Through Superior Firepower (why not “peace through free trade” or “peace through minding our own business”?), US Military World Tour, An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Patriots/Evildoers, Why’s Our Oil Under Their Soil?, First Iraq, Then France.