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To: bribriagain
Libertarians are simply conservatives without values or morals.

Not at all... Most libertarians tend to be fiscal conservatives and social liberals. Saying they "have no morals or values" is no different than saying "conservatives are simply hate-mongers and NAZIs," which is a statement I've seen more than one leftist make: And it's just as innacurate. Feel free to say that libertarians don't agree with your moral or values. But saying that they have none... Hmmmm... Maybe the leftists are right about the conservatives like you.

Mark

160 posted on 05/11/2003 8:00:04 PM PDT by MarkL (Maybe that was a bit TOO inflamatory? Nahhhh....)
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To: MarkL
Not at all... Most libertarians tend to be fiscal conservatives and social liberals. Saying they "have no morals or values"

Oh, some of them surely have morals. They just work very hard to keep them buried and hidden out of sight. They mortally fear being thought of as narrow-minded. They desperately want to be considered trendy and progressive. Because of the libertarians' desperate need to be thought of as noble by the crass, self-indulgent, and perverted classes, Bill Clinton understands and relates to libertarians far, far better than he does social conservatives.

Such libertarians are worse than useless in the culture wars; they are absolute dead weight because they lack the courage of their convictions. Because they will not take a principled stand on moral issues ("consent" is the flabby substitute catch-all word for "morals" in their limited lexicon), they get increasingly large and more frequent truckloads of moral sewage dumped in their communities, sewage that they mewlingly and passively profess to hate.

169 posted on 05/11/2003 8:47:33 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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