Posted on 10/26/2023 6:03:24 PM PDT by Stepan12
Libertarians are victims of their own success, and the rest of us are victims of the few remaining libertarians, who – like CrossFitters, militant atheists, and vegans – can’t seem to shut up about their obsession. The fact is that conservatism has absorbed most of libertarianism, at least the useful parts of it. I don’t have much use for a conservative who has no libertarian tendencies, but I’ve got no use at all for the self-identified libertarians we see all too often today. They are a bunch of rigid scolds with zero conception of how the world works but no hesitation to explain it to the rest of us.
The libertarian influence on modern American conservatism was a healthy and overdue development, and has opened conservatism to consideration by a much wider audience. Let’s look at old-school conservatism. The stereotype would be John Lithgow as the stick-up-his-Schumer minister in “Footloose,” obsessed with making sure that Kevin Bacon can’t bust a move. Repressed, boring, self-righteous – that’s the worst of the old-school conservative stereotype. But that’s not conservatism today. It’s not even close. And that has to do with the libertarian influence on our movement. The libertarian streak broadened not only the movement’s possibilities, but the potential for consideration by other folks who didn’t particularly want some dude monitoring their booty calls or regulating their haircuts.
Now, conservatives are not exactly libertines, and generally prize traditional values. As for abortion, there’s no libertarianism there. You just don’t get to kill babies. If live and let live means anything, it means both people involved live.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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.”
Thanks. We are definitely running out of room here.
I do not need school marmish lectures on tactics from a bunch of potheads and cheerleaders of sexual perversion.
I used to support drug legalization until I began trying to debate the Libertarians of the misnamed, "Reason Magazine." It was then I began to change my mind. I thought to myself, is this what narcotic drugs do to people?
I am not a libertarian, I am, however, a Randian Objectivist. WHO IS JOHN GALT ?
Not just Virginia. I lost count of many races the useful idiots handed to the rats. Many of them were actually paid to run by the DNC.
“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.
>> Many of them were actually paid to run by the DNC.
The Ron Paul rEVOLution f’rinstance? That’s so clever! It contains LOVE spelled backward you know! Peace love dope!
The Ron Paul cult always reminded me of the Scientologist cult, but I think the two groups didn’t like each other much.
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.
Those 90% industry/institution/billionaires/wealthiest men ever colluding/conspiring to destroy individual lives is called
FASCISM.
Calling folks that oppose fascism, nazis.
Just can’t make this stuff up.
Ayn Rand and the Objectivists took a principled stand against the Libertarians.
Just can’t make this stuff up.
.The eliinationist antisemitism that the Libertarians cheerlead and support is part and parcel of Nazism. Not to mention their holocaust denial issue.
Maybe Libertarians do not know how to fight evil because they are very evil themselves. I certainly think this is the case.
Hence the moniker...'Losertarians'.
BTW, one suspects that many Losertarian candidates are really Dem posers, seeking to split the vote (as is their successful MO).
I’ve never voted for one. They ended up putting too many democrats in office the same way Ralph Nader screwed Al Gore. The MSM allowed too many in debates to dilute republican support.
Republicans have to be more libertarian in economic issues. It’s the rinos that hurt us thereby driving the libertarians away.
Put Rand in as Trump’s VP. The prospect of Rand succeeding Trump might being them into the fold but only if they knew the difference between the 2 parties.
Anyone see a logical problem with this statement:
Libertarians are bad people because they do what they want to do, and not what we want them to do, which is what we want to do.
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