Let’s not forget that the owner of the Magic, Rich DeVos, is a right-wing Republican businessman (he co-founded Scamway) and fundamentalist Christian, with an estimated networth of at least $3 billion.

Would the extraction of money from unwilling people to cover the costs of an arena for a billionaire’s basketball team be any better, if that billionaire were a committed Leftist and deeply committed to religious tolerance?

Can we get a dishonorable mention for Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Curtis LeMay? I think that the massacre of 500,000 – 1,000,000 civilians during the terror-bombing of Japan may even be a tad worse than Right-wing demagoguery, or turning over a fort to the bloodybacks.

Phalamir: “Know-Nothings”, “jingoists”, Klu Klux Klansmen” – or simply “cunts”.

… because being compared to female genitalia is insulting. Ho ho ho. Overt misogyny is funny.

Craig R.: “Fucktards” would work for me, …

… because being like someone with mental retardation is contemptible. Ho ho ho. Overt contempt for the disabled is funny.

It is possible to make fun of, or express contempt for, the guilty, without meanness to innocent people who have nothing to do with whatever it is you’re on about. Maybe you should try some time.

I just call them “Right-wing statists.” The fact that the creeps insist on referring to themselves as “libertarians” has exactly as much effect on me as the fact that Stalinists insisted on describing themselves as democrats (indeed, as the only defenders of true democracy).

If you really need a term, Kevin Carson coined the term “vulgar libertarianism” a while back to describe unprincipled apologetics for corporate interest posing as libertarianism. It could reasonably be expanded to apply a bit more broadly so as to include Presidential royalists who imagine that they are libertarians by dint of their mild opposition to government welfare programs.

Thanks for the mention of the Molinari Society meeting. For what it’s worth, you can find links to online copies of my commentaries on Narveson and Ross at GT 2005-12-31: Proceedings.