Posted on 08/18/2013 12:38:51 PM PDT by Kaslin
The good thing about being a libertarian is that you are motivated by freedom, which is a very noble principle, and you have lots of evidence on your side, whether the issue is economics or personal liberty.
You can’t afford to be smug, of course, since it’s still a big uphill battle to convince politicians not to engage in plunder.
But at least you can sleep soundly at night knowing that you’re on the side of the angels.
And that even means you have self-confidence about your ideas and you can laugh when someone puts together some clever anti-libertarian humor.
Here’s the latest example, sent to me by a TV journalist.
What makes this funny is that libertarians are sometimes quick to defend their rights, even when nobody’s trying to take them away.
Which is why we sometimes get pigeonholed as being weird, like the family in the lower left of this poster, or paranoid, like the guy in the #8 spot of this poster.
But let’s be thankful that there are some libertarians willing to raise a stink about government even if the rest of the world thinks we’re a bit odd. As we’ve seen dozens of times, most recently with the IRS and NSA, bureaucrats and politicians have a compulsive tendency to grab more power and make government more intrusive.
I started yesterday’s post with a mother-in-law joke, so I’ll end today’s post by mentioning the fable of the frog that gets put in a pot of water and doesn’t jump out because the temperature feels comfortable. But then the heat is slowly raised and the frog no longer has the energy to escape when he finally figures out he’s being cooked.
Well, libertarians are the ones who loudly complain when the government puts us into pots.
The platform of the Litertarian party will tell you what libertarianism is about as well as the platform of the Republican party will tell you what a republic is.
The platform of the Litertarian party will tell you what libertarianism is about as well as the platform of the Republican party will tell you what a republic is.
Keep it up!
May YHWH bless and keep you!
By faith and blessing, keep up your posting! I’ll challenge the fools as I have time.
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Amen, Thank you for your honesty!
How does that make sense?
How does that make sense?
Makes perfect sense to me.
Grows on both sides of the road where I am at the moment. Along with wild roses, strawberries, asparagus, alfalfa, oregano, careless weeds and Johnson grass.
I guess you could get rid of all that if you wanted to coat the country with Agent Orange.
Many conservatives argue that drug prohibition is necessary to prevent addicts from becoming moochers. A libertarian response would be that were it not for the leftist insistence on supporting people who (whether because of a drug habit or for some other reason) have no motivation to work, drug addicts wouldn't be able to become moochers. Further, seeing what drug abuse would do to those who couldn't mooch off others would be more effective than prohibitions at curbing drug abuse.
To be sure, some people who hop on the pro-legalization bandwagon want to be able to use drugs while mooching off others, and wouldn't be so keen on legalization once welfare reforms were put in place first, but people who are philosophically libertarian are no less opposed to the idea of drug abusers mooching off society than are conservatives.
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