[NC_Libertarian]

Is that our own Liberal Classic posting over there?

[dirtboy]

I doubt anyone at DU is capable of SPELLING Libertarianism, let alone discussing it...

[NC_Libertarian]

Ping

[Dakmar]

We should send some WOD type FReepers over to explain that liberals and libertarians are the same thing. :-)

[billorites]

If you lurk too long at DU, you'll either grow hair on your palms or go blind.

[NC_Libertarian]

How do you justify calling Libertarians socially liberal while being anti-tax?

To me, a large, large portion of being 'socially liberal' includes government 'pork' that helps the disenfranchised become equal.

!?

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Considering this thread, this is an excellent chance to make it clear why this libertarian is far more comfortable with the right than left. It's a simple thing: Personal respect.

I have argued politics with both the left and right and consistently the right has shown more respect and less anger about our points of disagreement. I have found that most conservatives judge me by how I act; most left-wingers judge me by what I believe in.

I have received far more personal intolerance and hate from the left than I have from the right. For example, time and again, I have had left-wingers -- including some I had been friends with -- wish that my children would be shot, because of my pro-gun stand. I have never had any Christian conservative wish AIDS or homosexual rape on my children, because of my pro-gay beliefs.

This is really basic, folks. The Conservatives, including the Fundamentalist religious right, and I disagree on many issues; but I have almost always received respect and a decently fair hearing from them. I have rarely received such consideration from the left.

I hope someone passes this along to DU. They need to hear it.

[Ragin1]

Thanks for the heads up. Seems to be orderly, without the catcalls.

[vladog]

They don`t discuss anything on DU, they just repeat the party line. Bad old Repubs and everything is Bush`s fault. GAG.

[Yardstick]

Wow, they've got a pretty interesting thread going. Liberal Classic is doing a great job of breaking the libertarian philosophy into little digestible chunks for the confused liberal minds over there.

Here's one choice of bit of confusion I witnessed while I was over there. It's from post #20 and the guy who posted it claims to be an anarcho-socialist -- a true oxymoron. Here it is:

Anarchists and Left Libertarians are against capitalism, we feel there is no need to ban the market though.

Flabbergasting, isn't it.

[Dane]

Wow it is about time the drug addled found each other. Just gives validation to the addage "Misery loves company".

[Dane]

Oh BTW, give the DUer's this gem from Harry Browne(Libertarian Presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000).

They will probably swoon.

HARRY BROWNE: WHEN WILL WE AMERICANS LEARN?(article in Pravda)

[VA Advogado]

Libertarians are liberals who don't have the balls to admit it. I am sure their soulmates at DU are treating them like the brothers in arms that they are.

[VaBthang4]

[steve-b]

DU discusses libertarianism.

Can even the DUmmies get it as wrong as Dane, Cultural Jihad, and the rest of the usual gang of propagandists here?

[1_American]

I don't know. It didn't look like he was doing very well over there .....

[sayfer bullets]

How can you stand even trying to follow that $Hi++y message board? It makes my brain hurt, and that's before I even find what they're trying to say.

If you can fight through it, you do learn why the LP gets less than 1%.

[xm177e2]

DU Discusses Libertarianism

"FR Discusses DU's Discussion of Libertarianism"

[Liberal Classic]

Shucks, I seemed to have missed it.

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[Liberal Classic]

Yes, I post over there on occasion. I have been called a "private property absolutist" among other things. Oh, and a "stealth conservative." :P