Reply #12: The ONLY reason anyone even knows who Ben Stein is... [View All]

...is a bit role in a certain wildly successful John Hughes movie from the 80's known as Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Without this, he is precisely nothing except another shill for Friedmannian economical policies. He's made it known on several different occasions that he sees Richard Nixon as a great president. Not that this alone is shocking... many neoconservatives see how Nixon dealt with dissent and questioning of executive power as completely rational and necessary. But by championing the ideas of neoconservatism, he puts himself precisely opposed to democratic principles, which state clearly, "We don't need Ben Stein's (or any other self-aggrandizing wannabe think-tankers') permission or approval to change this country even if it makes him (them) cry a little." I hope he's stocked up on Clear Eyes because Ben's sadness is my joy.

Can anyone tell me what this is? Anyone? Anyone? This is my complete lack of sympathy for Ben Stein. Can anyone tell me what this means? Anyone? Anyone? It means that at this low-point here, which is where we are now, the amount of speaking out that Ben Stein does is inversely proportional to how much I care about it.