[Texasforever]

I think we over-intellectualize the entire libertarian/conservative/liberal distinctions. I see it in much simpler terms. Every 12-year-old boy is a libertarian along with a few girls. They stay that way until they become responsible for someone other than themselves. Once they have others that depend on them they begin to fall into liberal or conservative depending on how much personal responsibility they take for their own family. Libertarianism is the philosophy of the single male and it has nothing at all to do with constitutional issues.

[Diplomat]

Perhaps I give them too much credit for their desire to see us return to a Constitutional Republic. I agree with them here. I also get Larry Elder on my evening comute and he is a true libertarian.

[tpaine]

I think we over-intellectualize the entire libertarian/conservative/liberal distinctions.
I see it in much simpler terms. Every 12-year-old boy is a libertarian along with a few girls. They stay that way until they become responsible for someone other than themselves.
Once they have others that depend on them they begin to fall into liberal or conservative depending on how much personal responsibility they take for their own family.
Libertarianism is the philosophy of the single male and it has nothing at all to do with constitutional issues.
101 -tex-

Yep, simpleton philosophy 101, as taught by Tex Forever, eternal sophomore.

What a joke. Most of the libertarians I've known have progressed from schoolboy democrat to young republican family man, to maturity as a libertarian, having finally seen the bull spread by the republocrats for what it really is, -- socialist lies.

[rb22982]

Actually most young people who even give a flip about politics are primarily RATM socialists, not libertarians.