That blasphemous platform of theirs is radical and probably what Cletus was addressing, exactly. That is worse than “free will socialism”, from my perspective.
I was just attempting to put some “lipstick on the pig”, trying to account for those who may proclaim they are “Libertarian”, but are hopefully just vastly ignorant, but not so bloody ruthless as that platform from hell suggests. Otherwise, Libertarians are altogether a tribe of communistic tyrants, and utterly soulless.
That Lib platform was worse than the Democrat Platform. Didn’t they (Libs) wind up having to clean that radical stink tome of theirs up? I was thinking I read that, here.
Oopsie. Meant to ping you at #1245.
... trying to account for those who may proclaim they are “Libertarian”, but are hopefully just vastly ignorant,...
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During the ‘80s and ‘90s, every self identified “libertarian” I ran across had 2 primary issues wrapped up under one banner.
The issues were:
Decriminalize drugs
Decriminalize pedophilia/pederasty.
The banner was “the government has no right to tell me...”
I’ve been reading the LIbertarian Party platform over the years, and they’ve definitely tried to publically tone it down, for appearances’ sake clearly. They used to be more in-your-face with it.
This is a very good article about Libertarianism and their historical beliefs or philosophy. It’s one of the best articles I’ve read. Written by a former Libertarian activist.
For some reason, I can’t copy the title. Article is from 2012.