Celebrating Obscenity

It’s official. Cultural libertarians have jumped the shark. Read this Reason.com article and marvel. That’s right, the author isn’t celebrating the fact that citizens have a right to be vulgar, but rather the fact that citizens are vulgar.

James’ article on the ‘Sex Vote’ never seemed more apropos. The ongoing decline of certain portions of the libertarian movement from being defenders of political liberty to being cheerleaders for the kinds of cultural degeneration which have led to the abolition of those liberties in the past is simply horrifying.

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