Is Joel a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or what?
Joel is a registered Democrat; this is not to say that he’s of a particularly liberal bent, but rather, that he supports the broad goals of the Democratic Party and opposes the “morals-based” legislative agenda of the Republicans. Joel was 13 in 1981 when President Reagan took office. He spent his high school years watching Reagan’s insane lies and deranged, senile babblings on the news each night during dinner and, as a result, developed a lifelong antipathy to the twisted Newspeak of the Republican Party. He’s not real fond of the Libertarians either, though, because most Libertarians he’s known have been so selfish and “it’s MY money why should I pay ONE RED CENT to help the POOR”-oriented that he’s learned to ignore them. Furr worked for a little over two years in a public library and learned the importance of basic governmental services such as libraries. Libertarians would have you believe that we should ban such services and let for-profit libraries come into being — never mind
