He calls himself libertarian one day and conservative the next. He needs to make up his mind.
Why not keep em guessing?
“He calls himself libertarian one day and conservative the next. He needs to make up his mind.”
It’s not that he’s wishy-washy, the terms themselves are pretty complex. From what I’ve heard, he rejects the Republican and leans more toward the Libertarian party. Still, he calls himself conservative. An argument can be made, of course, that libertarianism itself is the most conservative of contemporary political movements. But at best the party is schizophrenic, so never mind. It’s perfectly reasonable for a conservative, if he doesn’t care about voting for a party to win, to consciously turn his back on the nominally conservative party and endorse a quasi-conservative but mostly permissive party, if he thinks part-conservative is better than liberal in conservative’s clothing.
I didn’t know libertarianism and conservatism were mutually exclusive. I think they have a broad overlap.
Ronald Reagan
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
— Ronald Reagan