tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post1252071867026473950..comments2023-10-20T09:27:13.001-07:00Comments on To My Parents, Ayn Rand, and God: On disclosing Fed Soc membershipIsabel Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338591033415985750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-74941909660926867142009-12-09T19:24:41.933-08:002009-12-09T19:24:41.933-08:00But the only people who actually see the Fed Soc a...<i>But the only people who actually see the Fed Soc as a big tent are members of the Fed Soc who have minority views (i.e. not big government theocrats). The BGTs don't think of it as a big tent---they want the pesky libertarians to butt out.</i><br /><br />See, I suspect we've just had different experiences. The BGTs in my law school all recognized that they were a tiny minority, and that they had to be reasonably nice to moderates and libertarians if they wanted more than three people to come to their debates and/or eat their pizza. Some actually seemed to go too far in stressing their moderate bona fides.<br /><br /><i>And the wider world thinks of it as a BGT shadow-cabinet organization.</i><br /><br />Again, different people just have different experiences, I suspect? Private sector law firms and other non-libertarian orgs with which I interviewed just didn't seem to care. I can't recall ever getting a hostile question about it (I did get favorable reactions from libertarian organizations.)Isabel Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338591033415985750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-53571502031071548562009-12-09T07:02:39.831-08:002009-12-09T07:02:39.831-08:00I don't disagree that there are a variety of v...I don't disagree that there are a variety of viewpoints within the Fed Soc membership. But the only people who actually see the Fed Soc as a big tent are members of the Fed Soc who have minority views (i.e. not big government theocrats). The BGTs don't think of it as a big tent---they want the pesky libertarians to butt out. And the wider world thinks of it as a BGT shadow-cabinet organization. So we can trumpet the "big tent" thing all we want, but nobody's buying it.Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11792206117772893217noreply@blogger.com