reading this jennifer burns profile of milton friedman and the entire section on the civil rights act is infuriating. friedman comes across as smug, blinkered and willfully ignorant of the actual state of the jim crowd south, to say nothing of its history. here, he is speaking out against the act

Milton Friedman was a cunt

"It's undemocratic to force democracy on a population." --Milton Friedman, super-genius

I didn’t know about Friedman’s connection with Goldwater but it totally checks out. He got better at not saying the quiet parts out loud as he ascended to icon status with Regan and the neocons. And yeah. This is totally rant-worthy.

libertarians have always been this way, but oh the affront they take if you call it out

It's fun to watch new generations discover that Uncle Milty sucked. No snark intended. It's understandable that some reputations that were well known by previous generations would need to be rediscovered by later ones.

Libertarians and Friedman fans are quick to yammer about tyranny of the majority when it comes to policies that affect them, but when it came to civil rights in the 60s it was "majority" rule.

Jamelle - do you recommend the Burns bio?

Friedman sucks. He’s been proven wrong again and again. Trickle down economics doesn’t work and only benefits the wealthy. He’s ignorant.

He’s horrible. Even worse, he’s getting credit for getting the U.S. out of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Obama used a Keynesian approach. He used government spending to get the economy back on track.

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