Posted on 05/29/2016 6:29:58 PM PDT by Trumpinator
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Libertarians are liberals who afraid to admit it. Gary Johnson is an attention-seeking doper.
That is not me. I shaved my beard and do not have an Iron Cross tattoo.
Libertarianism is a 250 year old political fad, spawned by the French Enlightenment from their revolutionary slogan, Liberte’.
It has absolutely nothing to do w/Principled Conservatism, born in the Greece of Antiquity.
Gary Johnson wants to ban burkas. That doesn’t sound libertarian to me.
Libertarianism has nothing to do with French Revolutionary Enlightenment—that’s Progressivism.
Libertarianism is classical Liberalism in the same vein as John Locke, etc. But since Progressives stole the original meaning & intent of ‘Liberalism’, the word Libertarianism was born.
Is Weld officially on the LPUSA ticket?
As such, isn't he anti-gun?
IOW...anarchists.
ROFL
And the LPUSA has him running on their Presidential ticket?
What an absolute joke. A gun-controller and an open-borders fanboy who thinks that controlling illegal immigration is racist.
The LPUSA couldn't look more clownish.
Vote Trump!
Your assertions are complete malarkey and utter nonsense.
* Hume, Locke, Berkeley, among others, up to and including Say, de Maistre and Burke; were the definers of Classical Liberalism, which in essence was conservative.
* The French, home base for every crackpot religious and secular heresy since the 9th century, spawned the Libertarian fad, principally through the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau.
* Progressivism came later, evolving from the concept of material progress, associated w/the Industrial revolution and whose principal advocates included Hegel and Marx.
You and I both know this Libertarian ticket was funded by the establishment as an attempt to siphon votes from Republicans.
It certainly looks like it. What a joke...
The LP has little to do with serious libertarian thought. It is open to frauds and shysters. Serious libertarians aren't into politics and running the government.
Johnson and Weld are liberal Republicans.
Libertarianism as a political philosophy has largely revolved around individualism, natural rights, and property; not exactly the stuff of Voltaire/Rousseau. A decent writeup I just saw on the matter: http://reformedlibertarian.com/blog/things-that-dont-make-a-libertarian/
American Conservatism properly understood (particularly in the spirit of the ‘Old Right’) ends up being largely synonymous with this.
(Though idiots like Buckley later inflicted much damage on that foundation, managing to mutate ‘modern Conservatism’ into something more blindly sentimental and reactionary).
As for Progressivism, what it’s incorporated from Marx is only an expansion on what the French Revolution (child of Rousseau) already laid down.
Political Libertarianism does not hold that rights come from government (as Progressives do), but that rights are naturally inherent to the individual. Same as what the Constitution upholds.
>>> The LP has little to do with serious libertarian thought. It is open to frauds and shysters. Serious libertarians aren’t into politics and running the government.
I’m aware. Likewise, I’ve never been involved with the LP.
>>> Johnson and Weld are liberal Republicans.
They’re basically Prog-lites, given their positions on free association, military interventionism, environmental regulation, gun control, border control, etc. They’re remarkably to the Neocon Left of Trump in all these matters.
I’m also lead to believe that Johnson/Weld are being backed by some donors (including the Kochs) solely for the purpose of attempting to dent Trump’s support. They conspicuously never attack Hillary, yet go into impassioned tirades against Trump.
I suspect this’ll backfire and end up drawing more disaffected Bernouts & other Dem-leaners, rather than Republicans.
Two full-term Governors!
The LP convention picked their candidates, BEFORE the Jun 7th primaries.
Therefore California and New Jersey LP voters are ignored. It is already a done deal, per the party elites.
Johnson favors
—Same sex marriage
—legalize many drugs
—reduce military 43%
—abortions on demand
—open borders
Two former GOP governors, picked by elites, not primary voters from the nation’s largest state
I read that Johnson announced him as VP before the convention.
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