More hyperbole that is actually just lies.
Posted on 10/04/2006 8:26:14 AM PDT by tang0r
The libertarian ideology is one of the most misunderstood in American politics. Many citizens don't have any idea what it is. Most of them who do - liberal and conservative - aver that libertarianism is nothing but a worthless form of crypto-anarchy. The author of one recently popular anti-libertarian article, titled with brevity "Why I Am Not a Libertarian," argues that libertarians want to privatize everything, and that since privatization of such things like the Pennekamp Coral Reef in Key Largo would destroy the cute fish and their natural habitat there, libertarianism is not for him. He also alleges that to be libertarian is to support abolishing welfare in favor of ruthless Social Darwinism, and since he doesn't like the idea of handicapped people being tossed in the street, so he rejects that axiom of "libertarianism" as well.
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The assumption that libertarians ALL want ALL drugs legalized is an assumption that is often made to bash libertarians. By the way, has keeping drugs illegal reduced the welfare roles and illegitimate births? It seems to me that plenty of children have been procreated under the influence of alcohol; what's the solution for that drug?
Government should have the power to craft social policy?
Also, to hammer cops every chance they get. All cops are jack booted thugs, etc.
Forgot about that one. Thanks!
Legalized drugs
Better than the current FU'd situation now
Open borders
Borders are already open. Libertarians would eliminate the welfare state and the handouts, illegals would have no incentives to come here
No action against terrorists in other countries
We'd respond if attacked. We just wouldn't be doing all that "spreading democracy" crap in the ME.
Amen, and it has surprised to find that there are "conservatives" who believe the government would be an able steward of this nation's "emotional" or "spiritual" health.
What would be the best-understood party in America? The YEC Party?
Then you really haven't thought about it that much . . .
The national LP is the one that's FU'd. I don't support the LP itself. Individual Libertarian candidates are generally more conservative with an emphasis on meat-and-potato issues such as taxes and getting the gov't out of education. At least Libertarians want the US out of the UN, something that all Republicans don't want.
Just curious, do you believe the current Neo-Wilsonian nation building effort to convert the rabid Islamist hordes to liberal democracy is an effective war fighting strategy?
The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things, not to act as social workers with machine guns.
More hyperbole that is actually just lies.
When haven't they? (And no, that's not a sarcastic, rhetorical question.) I'm trying to remember a case where conservatives actually shrank the size of government rather than merely growing it at a rate that was too small the satisfy liberals; but, I can't come up with any. They have certainly talked a good game over the years, but where are the results? I've always believed that being a conservative meant wanting government to shrink to its smallest practical size. I'm beginning to question that belief. Does "conservative" actually mean "liberal-lite"?
Of course illegals would have incentive to come here. It's called work. They would work for less than legal residents just like they do now. Do you want us to go back 100 years in our standard of living?
If you wonder what libertarians are like, just visualize the authors of our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Federalist Papers.
That should clear it up.
I'm already a libertarian. I was even a Libertarian until the went all "anti-war at any cost conspiracy left wing barking moonbat open borders are good" on me. Now I'm just a libertarian again.
Today's garden-variety conservative and garden-variety liberal both believe in big government solutions to societal problems. They only differ in what the problems are and what the outcomes should be.
For example, if you're a conservative, and homosexuality's the problem, it's okay to support a government crack-down on homos. If you're a liberal, and the problem is global warming, it's okay to support a government crack-down on SUVs.
Oh, really! Why is that everytime a thread is started based on a main stream media news article about a supposed police screwup, the libertarian cop haters come out of the wood work trashing all cops? Hmm? Happens every time. On everything else the MSM quacks about, most folks here hold off and waits for more info before coming to a conclusion or automatically dismisses it as liberal propaganda. That is not the case with anti cop stories. I've read it repeatedly, and if I or another makes a comment in favor of the cops or simply asks the cop slammers to wait for more info we are automatically labeled boot lickers, etc.
No hyperbole, and no lies. Your refusal to acknowledge the obvious is just another reason to ignore libertarian ranters.
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