Listeners who enjoy Jay Severin's beautifully eloquent anti-government lectures must unfortunately also listen to his disturbingly fascistic pro-government rants in favor of government torture programs, domestic spying and murderous, budget-busting foreign aggression. We here at jayseverin.org have always been careful to filter out the bad and take in only the good that Severin espouses. We hope that most other listeners are doing the same.
For if Severin were truly the "pure libertarian" he claims to be, he would be railing against runaway Big Government in all its thieving, lying, deadly forms, whether it be liberal bailouts and counterproductive social programs, or neoconservative terror attacks designed to trick America into funding immoral wars for profit.
Severin's willingness to expose only certain aspects of Big Government's evil, while carefully avoiding any discussion of certain others, makes him an insideous voice indeed. He miseducates thousands of unsuspecting listeners every day about what it means to be a truly principled libertarian. Jay is the kind of person who Jesus Christ called "lukewarm" - neither hot nor cold; unwilling to come down off the fence. Jesus said such people were "abhorrent...even more sickening than those who sin all of the time."
That describes Severin to a T when it comes to politics: he is even more sickening than a bleeding heart liberal, for he clearly knows the truth about big government yet supports many of its most egregious abuses and worst power grabs.
So while we're inclined to cut some slack for poor ignorant liberals who actually believe big government can be a force for good as long as the "right people" are running it, we cannot excuse an educated man like Severin, who is apparently in possession of the truth.