Rand Paul

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It is pretty simple, that speaks to the current POTUS.

That statement will always be true.

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Rob

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while I understand his point, and think that today there is less need for the government stepping in and determining the choices that private business can make with regards to their customers, at the time there was a need for such legislation.

The private sector had from 1868 (14th Amendment) to end its racism and showed itself totally incapable of doing so (especially in the south). Instead it gave us segregated restaurants, Jim Crow, etc. Clearly the free market failed to address the issue, contrary to Libertarian dogma.

That's 96 years of private sector racism until the Civil Rights Act of 1964! Just how long did Paul and the Libertarians think the private sector should be allowed to procrastinate before the government stepped in?

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while I understand his point, and think that today there is less need for the government stepping in and determining the choices that private business can make with regards to their customers, at the time there was a need for such legislation.

The private sector had from 1868 (14th Amendment) to end its racism and showed itself totally incapable of doing so (especially in the south). Instead it gave us segregated restaurants, Jim Crow, etc. Clearly the free market failed to address the issue, contrary to Libertarian dogma.

That's 96 years of private sector racism until the Civil Rights Act of 1964! Just how long did the Paul and the Libertarians think the private sector should be allowed to procrastinate before the government stepped in?

gee... let me step in my time machine and go back to 1964 and ask.

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Rob

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while I understand his point, and think that today there is less need for the government stepping in and determining the choices that private business can make with regards to their customers, at the time there was a need for such legislation.

The private sector had from 1868 (14th Amendment) to end its racism and showed itself totally incapable of doing so (especially in the south). Instead it gave us segregated restaurants, Jim Crow, etc. Clearly the free market failed to address the issue, contrary to Libertarian dogma.

That's 96 years of private sector racism until the Civil Rights Act of 1964! Just how long did the Paul and the Libertarians think the private sector should be allowed to procrastinate before the government stepped in?

gee... let me step in my time machine and go back to 1964 and ask.

No need, we know it's at least 142 years according to Rand.

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if only everything could really be as simple as you see it.

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Rob

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if only everything could really be as simple as you see it.

OK, if I'm wrong, explain just how the free market addressed and eliminated racism in the interval between the approval of the Constitution and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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I said you see things simply. You read a lot into that.

You seem to know that the Libertarian dogma was oh so long ago. If only it were that simple for the rest of us.

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Rob

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I said you see things simply. You read a lot into that.

You seem to know that the Libertarian dogma was oh so long ago. If only it were that simple for the rest of us.

Libertarian dogma was always libertarian.

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