Reinventing Libertaria

The Washington Dispatch ^ | May 27, 2003 | Gary Cruse

[Protagoras]

I have called no one a name prior to them calling me one.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, he said it first!

Mommy, he started it!

LOL, you are great for laughs.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Many people have complimented my wit and great sense of humor. Not the witless of course.

I don't mind exchanging insults but rarely start it. In fact, I like a good insult fired at me and an intelligent debate. Unfortunately, that leaves you out. :^{

[Protagoras]

Many people have complimented my wit and great sense of humor.

Your Mom and who else? LOL

Your best attribute seems to be your humility. The ladies love you and everyone thinks you are smart and funny.

You need a personality transplant.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I assume you have contacted those who have name-called and insulted me, O Guardian of Etiquette. Please, it has me sooo down I can hardly think of a proper response to your enlightening remarks. And you are sooo concerned about my lapses.

[moneyrunner]

LJ,

In my reply to you I never said anything about the Republican party. I am a conservative and, as a conservative I generally vote Republican since that party most closely corresponds with my own political philosophy, and is one of two contenders for governing. The party, like any other party in our system is a coalition of diverse interests. That is both its weakness and its strength. Coalitions are big enough to win elections. On the other hand, they may include people and philosophies that you find distasteful. That’s life. You must find the coalition that is least distasteful to you.

You may be right about the Republican party becoming more liberal, although I would contend that Reagan and Bush are both ideologically more conservative than Eisenhower, Nixon or Ford. Parties evolve, and the party that has evolved farthest is the Democrats. What a long way they have come from the party of Kennedy and Truman.

Libertarians and conservatives have allied themselves in the past to resist the statist forces of the Left when they are in power. However, when the Right gets into power, libertarians demand the immediate dismantling of the welfare state, open borders, a foreign policy George McGovern would like, and the end of drug laws. That’s for the first 100 days. After that, we turn the country back to the 18th century.

What they may not like, is that during the 18th century the franchise was restricted, blue laws were enforced, some of the states had official state churches and your neighbors intruded into your life a lot more than they do today; and they DID care what you did in the bedroom.

When I observe the Libertarians as a party, and read their posts on FR, I say a word of thanks that these people don’t inhabit the my part of the ideological spectrum. They are not conservative, they are not even right wing, they simply fail the kook test and have lost touch with reality. That does not mean that they do not have an impact. It simply means that, like Ted Kaczynski, they inhabit a mental parallel universe.

Part of being an adult, as opposed to being grown up, is to understand reality, to understand where the levers of power are, and if you have political views that you wish to see accepted you must find ways of having your fellow citizens agree with you.

From what I have observed, the libertarians at FR really don’t care to see their views accepted. They are playing with ideas, and pretty silly ones at that.

[LittleJoe]

I hear what you're saying, don't get me wrong. Libertarians live in a world civilization hasn't seen yet.

In the perfect Libertarian world there would be no government at all. If mankind were truly civilized, there would be no need for government.

They, like us, believe in limited government intrusion into our lives. We need their help.

It's a new world out there. Bush has brought patriotism back in style and we've got the momentum. We need to be strong enough to win the war against against the left by 2008.

If we lose, the whole world loses and the Borg will rule the world.

[CyberCowboy777]

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