so as you may know, i despise blogs of the daily kos variety: in thrall to someone's agenda: nonindividuated voices that point to the future of the blog as a forum for advertising. that anyone gets excited by this libertarian democrat manifesto is a tribute merely to blankness that is american party politics. of course, the idea is horseshit, except fot this: it's a way of expressing the obvious fact that there is no longer any libertarian element in the *republican* party. and i guess it could be a way to start this negative vs positive freedom thing up again: though the hacks should leave that kind of stuff to the experts. here's the nut, though: "the Libertarian Dem doesn't believe government is the solution for everything. But it sure as heck is effective in checking the power of corporations." ok, so kos: what exactly are the agenda items of the libertarian democrats that do not involve the expansion of the state? and this idea that government is "sure as heck" effective in checking the power of corporations" is an unbelievably simplistic approach to an unbelievably difficult question: ask halliburton what they think, or clearchannel, or the corporate lobbyists, flies feedding on the shitpile of the state.