This article post, like many of these article postings was posted by a self-professed pick-and-choose Conservative who gets their kick out of watching Conservative infighting.
Posters like this are more damaging to Conservatives and Libertarians than any Socialist or Liberal screeds on Democratic Underground. They are extremely suspect and are bullies to the political fight we must keep our eye on.
They are gnats in the soup.
I wish that were true. I honestly think there are some unsolvable & difficult hurdles, here. They will be difficult to bridge. Such as drug legalization. Most Freepers enjoy a beer I’m sure, but they’re unwilling to let people smoke Pot while watching the Game on the weekend. It’s hard to convince them to butt out. They just have a prejudice against some drugs in favor of others. I honestly don’t know how to overcome this, other than to mock them, call them hypocrites. Can’t get much traction there. I see it as insurmountable, it’s frustrating.
We (Libertarians) are consistently FOR allowing individual self-determination and personal liberty, laissez faire, as long as your personal choices to smoke cigarettes, eat red meat, and drink beer (and ruin your liver) for example, don’t infringe on others’ liberty; they call that “anarchistic” and “amoral” — rather than consistent and principled. Go figure... They like to pick-and-choose which choices people are “free” to make in the privacy of their own homes. They like to “pose” as individualists, but don’t have the courage to be truly respect of personal liberty, which always includes maximum tolerance of private activities by consenting adults which they, personally, may not necessarily choose. Pretty sad.
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