The Rational Ram

Let me preface this post by saying that I’m not exactly a “fan” of Representative Ocasio-Cortez (AOC for short) or her political stances on most issues. I think her “New Green Deal”, while not necessarily ill-conceived as a policy, contains a great deal of political naivety. Like many millennials, she could stand to read Robert […]

While getting a new driver’s license today, the very kind Indian-American lady who took my photo and processed my new license had a very interesting response to my humorous reply to the question on one of the processing screens that asked what my race was. I made the correct response on the touchscreen, but I […]

Keeping it short and sweet today, but I will try to be pithy and poignant. President Trump’s racist tweets this weekend elicited indignant responses from the left and very little reaction at all from conservatives, unless nigh-silence and empty deflections from Senator Mitch McConnell and Company counts as a reaction. That was predictably expected. However, […]

Today’s post isn’t exactly about politics, but politics (in the sense of power balance) are an integral part of our personal relationships. That said, the following piece of advice doesn’t deviate from the political theme of this blog too much. Allow me to preface what I’m about to say by saying that having a vast […]

Today, I had an enlightening epiphany… In the midst of the era of Trumpian politics, I am reminded of my political science studies and my reading of Plato’s book, The Republic. Book seven of that work is his Allegory of the Cave whose central premise highlights how human nature is often twisted by the sly […]

I’m keeping this post short and sweet today… If the current political climate is any indication of what is flawed about our political system, the root cause is the fact that we do not have term limits for senators and congressmen like we do for the chief executive. Let me add that Supreme Court Justices […]

And why President Trump is likely to lose in 2020. American voters are never satisfied with the status quo. At least not in the last decade. From the moment the George W. Bush presidency drew to a close after the 2008 election, Americans have searched for a “change candidate” to “shake up Washington politics”. Former […]

In a previous post (How Obamacare Should Be Fixed), I alluded to the spirit of American individualism being the product of mythical thinking. Well, that mythical thinking is more famously called “rugged individualism” and it is a myth that permeates the fabric of our national identity so deeply that it endures unabated well into the […]

A fellow “small L libertarian” with whom I happily engage in thoughtful debate, but far too seldom for my tastes, recently reminded me of the one glaring point upon which we diverge the most… His normative (how things ought to be) libertarian/anarchist ideology vs my descriptive (how things are) realist worldview. This is not to […]

When I started this blog, the original name was “The Rational Libertarian”. While that name doesn’t appear to have a copyright, I quickly realized that there are at least four other blogs with the same name (different URLs), so it really wasn’t original, though in my choosing that name initially for my own blog, I […]