We have no regard for natural law. We don't think we need to regard consequences, because our society has created a lot of hedge around the prevention of consequences.
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe in minimal government with government only doing what the individual cannot readily do on his own.
Give people good information, so they can't say they were never told, and let them live their lives. If it comes out badly for them, that's on them.
Conservatism is limited government, there is no need to bring in the fantasy libertarians, for one thing the most impossible thing for them to have under their social liberalism goals (and successes) is limited small government.
Social liberalism is obviously very, very easy to accomplish as we can see, and the more of it we get and the less socially conservative America becomes, then the more it results in massive and all controlling government.
The people who want to be left alone will always lose to the people who want to rule.
Either you rule, or you will be ruled. Choose.
I call myself a, ‘ConservaTarian.’ It’s basically a Libertarian without all the dope smoking. ;)
I agree with what you said about small Government (that Horse is out of the barn and into the hills!) and what the Author said about, ‘leave me the hell alone!’
I can manage my own life just fine, Thanks! :)
True. But I hope they vote trump anyway. The more votes the better.
Many libertarians are against the FDA, CDC, EPA, etc. and yet those are the agencies tasked with giving people good information.
We all know that all of those organizations have been compromised. The libertarian solution is to get rid of them and allow industries to "self-regulate". That path has also led to grave failures, deaths, and destruction.
This is why I think the libertarian philosophy is wrongheaded. It is too simplistic. The constant refrain "Well that's Econ 101" or the NAP are just two examples of an unserious political philosophy.
In my opinion this article is nonsense.
What Libertarians get right: neither the Ds or Rs actually stand for anything and voting for either and expecting change of any kind is pure madness.
I remember one of the questions to identify political bent for the Nolan Chart was, "should peaceful people be allowed cross borders freely?" As our Founding Fathers understood it, the answer is a resounding, Yes! Yet in our day and age, who will be the arbiter of determining who is peaceful and who will wake up and recognize an invasion? Just to let you know how invested in this I was, I once sat next to David Nolan at a $100.00 dinner.
The fact that every ballot within the LP convention must have the choice "NOTA" (none of the above), means an inevitable schism is always just around the corner. A schism like there was after 9/11 when those in the Libertarian Party who saw the attacks by Islam was initiation of force (thus requiring a principled libertarian response), and those that thought the use of force by Islam was retaliation for initiation of force by the the US (Paulists, etc.) against Islam, caused half of the the LP to grab their balls and go home.
Agreed.
Losertarians.
Can "the individual" suppress communist revolution, stop mobs from burning down cities, punish rapists and murderers, end usury, and protect the water and the air from spread of harmful substances?
I joined the LP in 1972. I voted for Ed Clark in 1980. I paid dues until 1988.
A perfect society for white men with IQs of >115.
The whole thing is a stupid fantasy.
If you want a good laugh, ask a libertarian how private fire and police departments work.
This guy needs to read all four fiction works:
We the Living. 1936 & 1959.I have and I'm better for it. This is how against Marxism and all of the other collectivist subsets.
Anthem. 1938 & 1946.
The Fountainhead. 1943.
Atlas Shrugged. 1957.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Mankind used to be busy in the individual need to survive, to eat and become comfortable.
After everything achieved by hard work, it is the policies of the lazy that resulted in all the unimaginable BS today.
Underfed, uncomfortable people do actually channel their time and effort to support themselves. However, when people start living in a world with little occupation in obtaining food themselves, they become more disconnected from reality. Today those people reject right, wrong, or fairness in their need for greed.
Whatever happened to “rugged individualism”?
Whatever happened to “self-determination”?
America, founded on those principles, has whored berself out to the “we can take ccare of you because we know better” crowd.
That krewe has now become hre “ whadayaneedthatfir,” krewe.
That krewe has, also become, the “youcantsaythat” krewe.
None of this happened without the SILRENT acceptance by some, and the vociferous threats of others.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE “HECK NO, I AIN’T BUYING THAT! NOW SHADDUP!”
“minimal government” is one thing.
Acting like maniacs is another.
I never thought of Libertarians as bafoons is what they are.
Don’t agree with us...conservative republicans...GO YOUR OWN WAY...WITHOUT ME.
I learned something that was surprising recently:
LIBERATARIANS WANT OPEN BORDERS!!!!!!
How nutsy is that??????
I can/t believe that I once thought they had sone sense,
“Politics is downstream from culture.”