Maybe my american readers can help me with this : How does the average american (meaning the average american who knows anything about his own country) look on the Waco tragedy? The media spin was that these were a bunch of child-abusing religious kooks getting ready to kill themselves, but do people honestly believe it?
The reason I ask is because Glenn Beck had a brilliant walk-through of the whole thing. I know some libertarians don’t like Beck because of his neocon tendencies (although those are MOSTLY in the past). At the same time, you cannot deny his part in popularizing anti-establisment thought, and especially anti-progressive/liberal thinking.
I still miss his mad rants when he was on Fox. I think they let him go when he started laying into both political parties and questioning the entire system. We can’t have that.
I’ve tried explaining to some of my fellow ‘Mericurans’ over the years. Most think the Feds acted appropriately sadly enough. Anecdotal, but even those on the right are stupid in some ways most of the time.
I’m still not sure about Glenn Beck. A few years ago he was calling Ron Paul supporters terrorist.
The faith in government really is sad.
And yeah, I know. Beck does tend to say and do stupid things sometimes. Mostly before, though. He is not completely libertarian, despite wanting to label himself as such. But at least he is getting more libertarian, and still seems to have a pretty broad following that he manages to teach some sense. I think he is sort of the middle-ground between the Christian right and the Ron Paul libertarians. That might in fact prove to be a very important middle-ground one day, if/when the current political system collapses onto itself.