Voices Like That of Senator Ebke

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I am a great admirer of Senator Laura Ebke.

Not least because she does what I do not do, so many of us do not do, though we ought to: she puts her convictions to the test of real politics.

I do not refrain from politics because I think it is per se wrong to engage in it, as unfortunately so many libertarians think. I stay away from the fray because it is so tough and gruelling.

Yet we need voices like that of Senator Ebke to be heard in the political arena, voices of those conscious of freedom.

A lot of my writing here at RSE is in defence of politics and the state, an incongruous position, many believe, for someone concerned with freedom.

However, over the years, I have come to realise that politics and the state are vital to our liberty; and when I say this, I think of public personalities like Senator Laura Ebke - undogmatic yet principled believers in freedom, with courage and circumspection in equal measure to defend their views tenaciously and to yield to better insight (of the need of compromise, for instance) when resistance to it becomes unreasonable.

Make sure to visit Senator Ebke's excellent facebook page.

 

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[Laura]

Georg, you may have just come up with copy for the next campaign for me!

"Senator Laura Ebke - undogmatic yet principled believers in freedom, with courage and circumspection in equal measure to defend their views tenaciously and to yield to better insight (of the need of compromise, for instance) when resistance to it becomes unreasonable."

Thank you for the very kind words