No libertarian could ever support Hillary. To do so would completely disqualify them as being a libertarian. And broad-brushing libertarians as idiots is totally unwarranted.
Once again, labels seem to have become completely meaningless, and serve as one-offs when a convenient pejorative is needed.
The meaning of the word libertarian has become just as butchered as that of the word conservative.
One thing for sure: Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives and libertarians should all Vote Trump!
Wasn’t it some old RINO who said that “Libertarianism is the heart of conservatism”? Who was that.....
He wouldn’t be welcome in the GOPe today, much as they love to claim they all supported him. I remember. Oh yes I do.
Once again, labels seem to have become completely meaningless, and serve as one-offs when a convenient pejorative is needed.
The meaning of the word libertarian has become just as butchered as that of the word conservative.
One thing for sure: Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives and libertarians should all Vote Trump!
I have some deeper insight here. In 2000 I sat next to the 1984 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, David Bergland, at a convention dinner. That day, he hosted a seminar on Libertarian Outreach. For fifteen years he had been surveying and analyzing libertarians. He had studied the libertarian mindset with "Keirsey Temperament Sorters" and "Myers–Briggs Type Indicators."
In the seminar he passed around general descriptions of personality types and had the hundreds of individuals pick their self identified personality types. When he asked for a show of hands which choice each person made, almost to a person everyone was a "Rationalist Temperament." David Bergland then told us that Rationals make up only 5% to 7% of the US population. Of that rather small percentage, 80% are Socialists.
Is it any wonder thefederalist.com fans could vote for Hillary?
After that shocking revelation, the outreach consisted of describing how to "turn" that 80% away from Socialism with the emphasis that, although Socialism makes everyone equal, they are equally poor and some will die of oppression when they beg for food.
I must say these numbers reveal the reason the Libertarian Party will always be a nutty fringe party.