Can Burning Man Survive Grover Norquist?

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Will Burning Man—the annual week-long festival held at the end of summer in the Nevada desert—survive a terrifying challenge that goes to the very heart of its ethos of radical self-expression?

As 50,000 freaks, trippers, and visionaries start prepping for a week of fun and sun, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has announced he will be attending this year's Burning Man.

Can a voluntary community dedicated to "radical inclusion" survive the presence of a man with Norquist's terrifying ideology?

Reason TV visited Norquist's office at Americans for Tax Reform to find out. You won't believe what happened next.

About 2 minutes.

Produced by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg.

Comments

[Almanian!]

I SAID, "But what do Millenials?? think about this?"

[vserve629]

There is a dude that knows what time of day it is. Wow.

http://www.WentAnon.tk

[gaoxiaen]

So... ummm... what time is it?

[pogi]

25 Or 6 To 4.

[Trouser-Pod]

Has anyone moved passed the annoyance phase to find Anon-bot's crap posts kinda funny?

'Cause that's some trenchant insight in regards to Grover Norquist...

/Wow

[triclops]

I think you are actually in the majority there. Anon-bot is pretty harmless here, and often makes some very amusing comments.

[Trouser-Pod]

Hmmm...I was under the impression that it was annoying, but ignored to a much greater degree than PB ever is, or is quietly loathed.

Something about this particular post just got me laughing, and I kinda felt, I dunno, a little more sympathetic to it.

[Suthenboy]

Sympathetic to Pedo-bot?!

*Glares at Trouser-Pod*

[Trouser-Pod]

Did he/it go pedo?? I guess that would explain why no one tends to engage it...

/Shame. And a little wow.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

One of the previous incarnations did. This one hasn't for a while that I've seen.

[Corning]

The Judgment day of the Terminator franchise was in 1997.

We have been living in a post anon-bot consciousness world for some time now.

[Marshall Gill]

Like 1984 the writer of The Terminator missed the dates by a few years. As has been observed on this site several times, Anon-bot is clearly the precursor to Skynet. Each day brings it closer to full awareness.

[Corning]

"Alright, I'll see you there"

The jacket is going to Burning man??!?!

Now that is a reason to freak the fuck out into a conniption fit of leftist indignation.

[Libertymike]

Hmmm, let us rephrase. Can liberty survive the likes of CATO and the Cosmotarians?

[GILMORE]

YOU CALLIN' ME A FUKKIN COSMOTARIAN??!

[Christophe]

I'd worry about the socialist hordes first. Disagree with CATO if you want, but they're not the ones standing in the way of libertopia.

[Carl ?s his ? for ?s]

Go back to LRC you mental midget.

[Mark22]

I don't see why afficionados of vodka+Cointreau wouldn't be in favor liberty.

[william2849]

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[Cloudbuster]

Scratch the surface of the "community dedicated to 'radical inclusion'" and I'll be you'll find a whole bunch of collectivists eager to get their "free" health care, arts grants and other government "freebies." Because they're deserving, and because of art and stuff.

[Fist of Etiquette]

How dare you accurately assess the situation.

[Mark22]

Burning Man attendees are economically well off; few would be needing government handouts. They are split pretty evenly between Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

Progressives/Democrats are really split into three camps: poor folks who think they'll be better off getting stuff, well-intentioned wealthy people believing that giving away money through the government helps, and a wide range of cronies who like to profit from the whole scheme. Burning Man is mostly populated by the well-intentioned wealthy people.

[Suthenboy]

I don't know how many times I have to say this; radical inclusion is only for the right kinds of people, dammit.

[craiginmass]

Grover is free to have gay sex and take mind expanding drugs...just like the rest of them....

Heck, if the google founders can be there....

Grover is getting paid big bucks and wallowing in the drug of Power....to do and say what he does. I don't think he even believes is. So what else is new? A man lies for his paycheck!

[american socialist]

Been there 4 times so I speak from experience when I say that there's nothing to worry about, Grover. There's something for everyone at BRC and there are plenty of your fellow obnoxious rich asshole idiots out there for you to commune with. Note to Reason editors looking to vibe culturally with hip Millenial cool kids... Everyone knows Burning Man is pass?. Just look at any poll done in San Francisco and it will tell you that sf residents routinely rank burners as one of the most irritating things about the city.

[Suicidy]

So where do all the hipster trash go now?

[american socialist]

Wouldn't know. I'm pure suburban proletariat now with a job, kids, and a house. Maybe you should ask nick Gillespie and Brian Doherty since they seem to really, really be going after the cool kid demographic-- along with, of course, Grover norquist. I personally couldn't put up with all the Larry harvey deification I saw out there the last time.

[Mark22]

Well, since San Francisco itself is passe and full of "rich asshole idiots", it should be a perfect match then.

[VicRattlehead]

Dunno about the rest of the Hippie clans, but the ones in Upstate NY tend to lean pretty heavily into the Libertarian or Anarchist camps, with only 1 or 2 well intentioned progderps who are convinced the problem with communism is we didn't have the right top men forcing people into it. Sterling Stage is probably the only reggae-jam band-folk music festival with Gadsden flags flying all over the place, a guy dressed up in a dead-bear costume with a spirit of '76 flag for a cape, and an Oath Keepers camp. My take away is that there must be all sorts of folk at these places, and even if they were exclusively progressive isnt it more important to address their ideology problems?

[MSimon]

Former Police Detective Howard Wooldrige is friendly with Grover.

[playamoth]

Most people come out of the Burning Man experience a changed man. Mostly for good. Let's see how the desert transforms or crack his hard nut; or for a conservative hardliner like him, probably not.