My Politics

“I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

Nassim Taleb 

from Skin in the Game

To apply to myself I would reword Taleb’s brilliant observation to say: “At the family level I am a communist, at the friend and acquaintance level a socialist, at the local level a Democrat, at the state level a Republican and at the national level a libertarian. But at no level is it absolute, governance is a continuum.”


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