See, the big hurdle you big government lovers have is, like your liberal brothers and sisters, you can’t get outside of groupthink. Frankly I’m tired of having to explain what a small “L” libertarian is to people too dim to operate outside of the fake left/right paradigm. Get 100 libertarians in a room and maybe one or two of them care that there even is a Libertarian Party platform, let alone support it. Most libertarians know that party platforms are 100% bulls***. But if you want to use one or two loons who want to call themselves “Libertarians,” to smear the rest of us then that means I get to hang Fred Phelps around your neck and assign all of his positions to you.
I do not love the government.
But children are not available as sexual partners for adults so the libertarian party is out, and always will be.
There are not only two options.
I do not have to condone the normalization of sex with minors to be opposed to socialism.
THANK YOU.
The bad part is that, judging by posts I've read on past threads, there are WAY TOO MANY times American conservatives come to Free Republic looking for kindred political/moral spirits, jump in on one of these threads talking about how small-l libertarian is so important to conservatism and morality -- then these clearly moral, Christian compatriots are instantly accused of being child molesters, abortion advocates, drug pushers, and enthusiasts of the homosexual agenda. So those would-be FReepers leave because they think, "I guess FR isn't the place for me." Jim Robinson loses money, and conservatism loses credibility.
And the reality is that the "all libertarians are child-molesting abortion-pushing homo-loving sickos" FReeper contingent actually represent a very small handful of FReepers and conservatives, but they are so vocal and persistent, and because they scream and yelp so loudly and attack so viciously and deviously, they can leave the impression that THEY aren't a despised minority. Which I believe they are on FR.
They are bad news and deserve to have their asses kicked. THANK YOU, Orangedog, for your well-aimed kick at their proud, self-righteous, deceitful patoots!!!
The party the libertarians formed to advance and represent their politics is a perfect representation of libertarianism.
The while libertarians often work on the major parties for practical reasons, for instance to move the GOP left on social issues, their own party remains pure to libertarian principles.