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PayPal CEO, Facebook backer: If Only Women Didn’t Have The Vote….

Celebrity libertarians come in many forms. Some of them are Ron Paul, for example. Another one is this guy, Peter Thiel, former CEO of PayPal and one of Facebook’s primary initial investors. Peter has made a lot of money in his life and considers himself a genius. He also thinks that our hopes for a true “capitalist democracy” went to hell in a handbasket when “women got the franchise” in 1920. Check out his screed on the Cato Institute’s blog, Cato Unbound, in which he addresses both the downfall of all meaningful politics via female-cast ballots and the weighty topic of what his crowd – the “smartest libertarians” – were up to in the go go 1990s. Think Bret Easton Ellis without the fun bits. Via Gawker.

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This entry was written by Tristin Aaron, posted on April 29, 2009 at 5:14 pm, filed under Progressive Women's Voices. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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  1. Glenda
    Posted May 1, 2009 at 4:23 pm | Permalink

    Interesting. I found a longer statement about women and voting here:

    http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/05/01/peter-thiel/your-suffrage-isnt-in-danger-your-other-rights-are/

  2. Tristin
    Posted May 1, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the link, Glenda. It’s a strange statement in which he sidesteps his original charge that women’s votes were detrimental to our political system. It seems his main lament is that no one engaged his idea that we should all live on boats or in outer space. Pity, that.

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