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You can be the first or second without actually being a Republican or in college.
You can be the first or second without actually being a Republican or in college.
To do a really exhaustive anthropological study of libertarian society would require way more time on the internet then I could possibly fit into my schedule.
I'm thinking "internet libertarian" might be a reasonable addition, but it has a lot of similarities with "college libertarian".
And that's libertarians fault...or rather as you seem to insinuate, libertarianism purpose? I think that instead, you have a bigotry against libertarians and are basically contriving reasons by which you can just dismiss the whole of it.
And that's libertarians fault...or rather as you seem to insinuate, libertarianism purpose? I think that instead, you have a bigotry against libertarians and are basically contriving reasons by which you can just dismiss the whole of it.
Well, the vast majority are basically Republicans.
But, the other alternative is just as bad.
The "true believers" are not only the obvious tool of social conservatives but approach politics in an incredibly narcissistic and useless way, often illustrating their naivety.
A Democrat from a large city has a very serious problem. Drugs, guns, whatever, it doesn't matter.
The Democrat wants to discuss how to solve the problem. He has various solutions and various processes requiring various funding.
The Republican doesn't want to pay for it because he'd rather spend money on missiles and doesn't really care about the problem.
The Libertarian wants to masturbate. He wants to tell everyone how much he loves liberty, which is a very easy thing to do. What's hard is actually solving problems. It's obvious to anyone that the free market absolutely does not always provide a better standard of living or a safer environment for everyone. Both the left and the right agree on this (although they focus on different aspects of the markets failings). The libertarian will argue that those failings are not failings- they're "natural" or that it's somehow heroic to burden them in the name of a "free society".
This is a very easy thing to say from the safety of libertarian Montana or behind a bourgeoisie computer screen at college.
However, the reality on the street, is that my actual existence is put in jeopardy everyday so that ideologues can entertain their fantasies about being able to overthrow a government that has stealth bombers with handguns and sawed-off shotguns.
Because they don't care about reality they care about entertaining their obsessive ideology.
Here's the problem with Libertarians:
They obsess over stupid bull**** like Rudy Ridge and Waco.
Philadelphia has the equivalent of about four Wacos every year. Adjusted for population (using Philly as a base) places like Baltimore and Detroit have a Waco about once every two weeks.
But libertarians don't care about that, because there's no heroic resistors or evil ATF. Because it's REAL LIFE, not a bizarre testosterone fueled reinterpretation of Red Dawn.
Because they don't care about people or problems, they care about their ideology.
Democrats are absolutely concerned with gun violence- and I'm not going to debate that with you because I will not debate it with people who will turn it into an ideological debate because it's so offensive to me.
I'm fairly certain that a good number of Republicans find gun violence in large cities emotionally satisfying.
I'm not going to debate it with you.
There simply aren't any ideologies, be they left or right or somewhere in between, that don't fail at some point for some reason IMO. Its not the ideologies fault that people cannot be expected to behave in the manner the ideology calls for.
Here's the problem with Libertarians:
They obsess over stupid bull**** like Rudy Ridge and Waco.
Philadelphia has the equivalent of about four Wacos every year. Adjusted for population (using Philly as a base) places like Baltimore and Detroit have a Waco about once every two weeks.
But libertarians don't care about that, because there's no heroic resistors or evil ATF. Because it's REAL LIFE, not a bizarre testosterone fueled reinterpretation of Red Dawn.
Because they don't care about people or problems, they care about their ideology.
Any democrat who suggests a mixed economy is branded a socialist. It's ludicrous.
Here's the problem with Libertarians:
They obsess over stupid bull**** like Rudy Ridge and Waco.
Philadelphia has the equivalent of about four Wacos every year. Adjusted for population (using Philly as a base) places like Baltimore and Detroit have a Waco about once every two weeks.
But libertarians don't care about that, because there's no heroic resistors or evil ATF. Because it's REAL LIFE, not a bizarre testosterone fueled reinterpretation of Red Dawn.
Because they don't care about people or problems, they care about their ideology.