To: 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.
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.
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01/12/2003 11:53:59 PM PST by
tpaine
To: tpaine
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. Tpaine, you embody the old saying that "if you are 18 and not a liberal you have no heart. If you are 30 and not a conservative you have no brain. If you are over 30 and a libertarian you have neither".
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