“I can see that you are a good and optimistic citizen. You wouldn’t dream of staying home on Election Day. You have undying hope of government actually getting it right despite centuries and millions of innocent lives and fortunes wasted as evidence that it hasn’t yet. There is a psychological term for this — it’s called ‘delusion.’ … You are free to persist in your delusions and no doubt you will. But the thing is, voting to force me to conform to your delusion is just inconsistent with your alleged philosophy of personal freedom. Or does ‘freedom’ only actually apply to you, to those you believe to be deserving of it and then it somehow warps into what you want from the rest of us?” (01/05/09)