{"id":185987,"date":"2014-06-24T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/24\/another-right-wing-hypocrite\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:36:00","slug":"another-right-wing-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/24\/another-right-wing-hypocrite\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Right Wing Hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Heinlein, whose life was defined by <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2014\/06\/tuesday-book-blogging-jeet-heer-on-robert-a-heinleins-navy-disability-pension-and-social-insurance.html\">his US Navy pension<\/a>, 2\/3 of active duty pay, when he was medically retired for TB.<\/p>\n<p>He was in the Navy because his family was politically connected, and got him into the US Naval Academy at Annapolis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"14\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">So: Robert Heinlein, that great hero of libertarian culture, was the complete creation of the invisible welfare state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">The invisible welfare state is like white privilege: its whole power comes from the fact it is not talked about. Not seen as welfare.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">To understand the American right, we have to understand the process of forgetting that allowed Heinlein to suppress memory of pension.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Read the rest)<\/p>\n<p>This is Ayn Rand, who had lung cancer from her smoking, going on Medicare all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarians are wrong, and they are hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>One cannot prove this, but it &#8216;is&#8217; in the same sense that Mount Everest &#8216;is&#8217;, or that Alma Cogan &#8216;isn&#8217;t&#8217;.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">From The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of <a href=\"http:\/\/pythonline.com\/\">Monty Python<\/a> and the Holy Grail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Heinlein, whose life was defined by his US Navy pension, 2\/3 of active duty pay, when he was medically retired for TB. He was in the Navy because his family was politically connected, and got him into the US Naval Academy at Annapolis: So: Robert Heinlein, that great hero of libertarian culture, was the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1175,1003,1171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-literature","category-philosophy","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}