The Little Brown Reader

Think about it: What do many conservatives stand for today? They stand for nothing more than developing reforms to the socialist New Deal-Great Society programs that they now embrace and that their predecessors once called for repealing, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. They also favor public (i.e., government) schooling, income taxation, the IRS, economic regulations, illegal invasions and occupations, the drug war, indefinite detentions, suppression of civil liberties, gun control, an ever-growing military-industrial complex, uncontrollable government spending, especially on America's 51st state, Iraq, and executive nullification of constitutional provisions.

But rather than admit the error of their ways and reject the socialistic and interventionist means that their predecessors once opposed -- rather than join up with us libertarians to lead America and the world to the highest reaches of freedom, peace, and prosperity ever attained by man -- all too many conservatives now remain steadfastly committed to embracing the omnipotent state, even while incessantly calling for new reforms to fix the perverse results of this morally and economically bankrupt system.