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Is Hilary Clinton A 'Statist'?

Posted by khalling 9 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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One explanation is the enduring fondness among limited-government adherents for philosopher and author Ayn Rand, whom her associate Harry Binswanger described as having “tirelessly promoted” the word’s use. She viewed statism as the notion that “man’s life and work belong to the state – to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation – and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own, tribal, collective good.”
What 2016 Presidential Candidates and Hopefuls fit Rand's definition of 'statist'?


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 10 months ago
    What bothers me most about Hillary is how she keeps getting a pass for criminal behavior on different levels.
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  • Posted by radical 9 years, 10 months ago
    Is the Pope Catholic? Does the ape shit in the jungle?
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good points. I had not heard those pieces. Is there anyone that is not a statist then? Urg. I will look more.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ah, check out his foreign policy plans...should we be everywhere Ted Cruz says we should be? what about abortion? in whose individual interest is it to decide when a woman must burden herself to birth and after? if not statist, then there would be no law, right?
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 10 months ago
    Well K, I think this is the silliest question you have ever asked. Lol. Of course she is, along with most of the other candidates from either side. IMHO Ted Cruz is the person that is least statist, that is next to Ron Paul who I don't believe is running again.

    Of course I was being sarcastic about the silly question. :)
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  • Posted by 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    wait-that does not do catfish justice. I sure am looking forward to some catfish when I come up to the States.
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 9 years, 10 months ago
    Hillary Clinton is a Clintonist...she'd come out in favor of cancer if she thought for one moment that there was a dollar in it for her. She's not even good enough to be a Statist.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years, 10 months ago
    Is this a question?

    She's the "It Takes a Village" author. Not only did we not build that, but they aren't even our kids. Individuals mean nothing to her.
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    Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 10 months ago
    The ONLY elected official that has served in the Dark Center in recent times that doesn't deserve the statist label is Ron Paul.
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