The biggest objection to voting for a Third Party is the “wasted vote” argument — the idea that if you vote for someone who will not win, then the vote does not count. Join any third party and merely suggest that another person consider voting for a third party candidate and you will hear, ad […]
Author: Sean Dempsey
Sean Dempsey is an author, entrepreneur, and real-estate investor whose writing spans personal finance, psychological horror, and philosophical fiction. He is the author of Financial Cheat Codes: How to Win the Game of Finance as well as the fictional works The Shunt, The Lost Tapes of Doctor Michel Siffre, and Dead Stars Shine Brightest. Drawing upon more than 15 years of experience founding businesses and investing in real estate, Dempsey explores subjects ranging from financial independence and self-sovereignty to human consciousness and the search for meaning. He is also one of the hosts of the podcast 'Metamodernism Uncensored.'
The Anti-Vote Movement
Why almost everyone (i.e. the uninformed, politically-ignorant masses) should stay home this November! Wearing an “I Voted” sticker on Election Day announces that you are a proud participant in the grand tradition of representative democracy, the worst system except all the others. It says “I care,” “I’m informed,” and perhaps also “this shirt is machine […]
Problem with Memes: Over-simplifying complex ideas
A close friend carelessly posted the following meme on facebook the other day. Big mistake. I hate memes! Well … I obviously could just let it go. What follows is a logical rant in rejoinder. Me: “I don’t really have a horse in this fight, and I recognize there’s often a lot of emotion on […]
Go for the Steak, America!
Tonight you turn on tv. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC. All media sources, all newspapers, all outlets: they all scream one thing: You must decide in a handful of months what the entire country is to have for dinner. Unfortunately there are only two options. A pile of cow manure. OR a pile of horse manure. […]
On Hearing of the Death of Robin Williams
August 11, 2014by Sean Dempsey When I was a childThere stood a house by a lakeIn a bed of woods it did lay.We would yearly devote–To find hearth reached by boat–On a trip that took nearly a day. When I was a child,My two brothers and I,And little sister, merely three years,We would play high […]
Bastiat and Legal Plunder
This pretty much sums up in a nice nutshell the Libertarian argument.
Walter Williams on Stossel
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Classic problem with left-wing economists
This article from Slate does a very decent job at explaining how bad the economic situation is and will most likely remain so for the foreseeable future. Then near the end, the classic Keynesian slip, “That is not to say that there is nothing to be done, of course, or that the current state of […]
Welcome to The Opposition
Welcome to The Opposition! This is where you will learn the truth. ‘The Truth’ you say; what is that? Well…we will tell you. Come and experience the Opposition to slavery and deceit….