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Lastly, I’d like to suggest that, in terms of authoritarianism, there is a big difference between the liberals and the conservatives. I highly recommend that you read The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer. You can find it at this was the link. It’s a great read, lots of fun, and shows just how dangerous authoritarians can be. And it’s based on detailed psychology experiments, not the random personal ramblings of a hot air bag.

2. Liberals are tolerant of dissent, but just as hateful towards conservative politicians as conservatives are towards liberal politicians. Liberal blogs are full of nastiness towards Mr. Bush, conservative blogs are full of nastiness towards Ms. Clinton — but the difference is that a liberal on a conservative blog is personally attacked and ends up banned, while a conservative on a liberal blog will not be personally attacked and seldom banned. Also, liberals love to use obscenities. The liberal blogs are best at providing lots of detailed background information on the issues.

3. Libertarians are highly ideological. If an asteroid were heading towards the earth, and the only way to stop it required the libertarian to surrender some of his liberties, he’d shout “Give me liberty or give me death!”

RedState’s policy amuses me. These people are so self-righteous they can shoot themselves in the foot and shout ‘Ta-da!’ Permit me to draw grand generalizations (which therefore are riddled with exceptions) about the behavior of three groups on blogs:

1. Conservatives will not brook dissent. They are highly tribal; their favorite discussions are those in which all heads bob up and down in unison about how dastardly all liberals are. They compete only in the cleverness of their mudslinging at liberals. They’re full of hate — they’d much rather vent spleen at a liberal than discuss liberal politics. Conservatives are woefully ignorant and less educated than the other groups.

It depends on how the site defines spamming and how strict the enforcement will be.

That’s because most blog/message boards don’t allow for moderation and meta-moderation as found on sites like Slashdot. Readers moderate the posts and the moderators. Banning people seem rather barbaric given the technology that’s available.

http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml

End of story.

I have seen enough posts with 80 messages on this blog to know how annoying the “Run Ron Run” crowd can be.

Prior to his actual entry into the race, and our subsequent discovery of how snoringly dull he is, people were dropping little “Go, Fred, go!” nuggets too. Granted it was fewer people than did so for Ron.

Could this backfire on Red State? Maybe, but I doubt it. I have seen enough posts with 80 messages on this blog to know how annoying the “Run Ron Run” crowd can be. It depends on how the site defines spamming and how strict the enforcement will be. Eliminating any comment with Ron Paul in it won’t work, but at least they are trying to manage the site to allow for actual discussion to take place.

Ultimately, that’s why Ron Paul won’t win. That’s how the country went from an academic experiment in freedom and liberty to what we have today.

Freedom and liberty seem to scare and confuse people.

Note that Red State has a new “Ron Paul” headline each day now. I guess Paul saved them from permanent irrelevance?

It doesn’t really matter, however, as the energy crisis will be approaching fast and furious and people will want the strongman to make it all better soon enough and there’s not a goddamn thing we can do about it.