As a Jew with family in Israel, I especially do not like them. Even though the founder of "Reason Magazine," the late Lanny Friedlander was a guest at my families home.
I did not want to flood Free Republic with one big long article, so I did an excerpt even if one has to read the original.
As onetime Libertarian presidential hopeful, former Republican Congressional candidate, and talk show host Austin Petersen says, there are about five kinds of libertarians.
Dr. Russell Kirk called libertarians “chirping sectaries.”
“a tiresome little fringe group of self-righteous nerds”
I love that.
Neat article/pov as a guy just got jail time over a meme.
Libertarians were super-annoying in the 1970’s, when I was active in the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). At YAF national conventions, they tried to get the delegates to pass resolutions putting YAF on record as favoring the legalization of drugs, prostitution, gambling, and other vices. Legalized Gambling got through a’77 clambake, but not the other resolutions.
“...a conservative who has no libertarian tendencies, “
I plead 100 percent GUILTY !
Today's Libertarians are primarily concerned with legalizing prostitution and repealing age of consent laws.
Its the “drug use has no societal consequences” & “open borders are good” Libertarian stances that annoy me.
It would have been more effective if Schlichter named names. Who is he talking about? Rand Paul?
That's how Democrats like to think of conservatives - as social conservatives - someone who is "resistant to change."
But, a social conservative can be a Democrat or a Republican.
In U.S. politics, a conservative is someone who favors free market capitalism, limited government, private property, national defense, and, yes, traditional values.
A libertarian might agree with a conservative, but he uses different rhetoric. He might favor traditional values, too, but believes limited government is more important.
What's confusing is that people use the terms "conservative" and "liberal" as social terms. When you start listening to them, you realize they don't fit the definition of what they think they are. Some people say they're conservatives, but they're only "conservative" on a few issues. The same with people who say they're liberal.
It seems people who don't want to identify with either of those two social groups, or who dislike both parties, have been using the term "libertarian," even if they really don't fit that definition, either.