[NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961]

While I agree with you on the need for much less government, the Liberterians are for open borders and legalized drugs. Sorry but only dopers can really make that a platform in their party.

[misterrob]

Actually, that is a bit or a misstatement. There is a wide chasm in that "party". The drug legalization issue is rather complex. Tell me what is so different about the effects of marijuana and a few shots of Jack Daniels? Not much really. What is important though is the issue of personal responsibility that goes with it. Libertarians think that if a person wants to do drugs (while not infringing upon someone else's rights) them that's their decision. Government shouldn't be telling you how to run your life. But, they also believe that the person doing the dope is 100% responsible for whatever comes from their actions. I don't think you will find many of the normal types advocating open borders. They do believe that the Government has a responsibility to provide a national defense and they also support the 2nd amendment. Some take it too far to the extreme even bordering on anarchy but you can point to extremists in the republican party who like to think that God Almighty wrote the Constitution and that government should be in the business of telling people how to run their own lives.

[end socialism now]

Who was for repealing the 18th amendment? Just the drunks? Anyway, we need a new party: libertarianism without the idiocy.

[Nuc1]

Last time I checked, a few years back, they wanted to get rid of the CIA and standing armed forces. They would blind us and leave us defenseless. Throw in their drug nonsense and that did it for me. They simply aren't responsible enough to consider joining.

[secretagent]

While I agree with you on the need for much less government, the Liberterians are for open borders and legalized drugs. Sorry but only dopers can really make that a platform in their party.

Just sticking with legalized drugs, dopers frequently don't support that. Libertarians do because it illustrates so much of the philosophy.

Those who oppose legalized drugs don't understand the libertarian view or don't agree with it.