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American Conservatives Sound Liberal Next to Libertarians.

Ah the libertarians....the real one percenters.......of the national vote that is
 
TeleKat said:
Hahaha. This is great.

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So a young kid is interviewed and his views are deliberately misconstrued in front of a camera and I'm supposed to take the interviewer seriously? The kid obviously hasn't spent much time with in-depth thinking of his position, nor has he had much practice in debating (he's so terrible in this interview), but it doesn't change the fact the interviewer was being blatantly dishonest.
 
Slyfox696 said:
So a young kid is interviewed and his views are deliberately misconstrued in front of a camera and I'm supposed to take the interviewer seriously? The kid obviously hasn't spent much time with in-depth thinking of his position, nor has he had much practice in debating (he's so terrible in this interview), but it doesn't change the fact the interviewer was being blatantly dishonest.
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Nothing dishonest about it. He claimed to oppose something that he simultaneously supported. Pointing that out is not dishonest.
 
TeleKat said:
Nothing dishonest about it. He claimed to oppose something that he simultaneously supported. Pointing that out is not dishonest.
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Twisting his words into something which they were not intended to be is dishonest. Taking the idea of government protecting education and providing assistance to those in need when necessary and twisting that significantly into the bogeyman of communism was incredibly dishonest. Just because the kid wasn't smart or savvy enough to call him on it doesn't change the dishonesty behind it.
 
Slyfox696 said:
Twisting his words into something which they were not intended to be is dishonest. Taking the idea of government protecting education and providing assistance to those in need when necessary and twisting that significantly into the bogeyman of communism was incredibly dishonest. Just because the kid wasn't smart or savvy enough to call him on it doesn't change the dishonesty behind it.
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It wasn't dishonest. He didn't "twist" it into anything. It was an interview. It wasn't his fault the man(lets make it clear that he was definitely NOT a child) wasn't consistent in his approach to limited government.
 
TeleKat said:
It wasn't dishonest.
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It absolutely was. Trying to say government supporting education is the equivalent of communism controlling education is dishonest.

He didn't "twist" it into anything.
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Perhaps you should watch the video before you post it then?

It was an interview.
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No it wasn't, it was a chance for the one holding the microphone to play "Gotcha".

It wasn't his fault the man(lets make it clear that he was definitely NOT a child) wasn't consistent in his approach to limited government.
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Therein lies the flaw in your argument and the argument in the man holding the microphone. Limited government is not a thing. There's no line you cross at which point you've entered limited government. The one being "interviewed" did favor limits on the government, just not to the same degree the other one did. From this, the one holding the microphone twisted the argument of the young man into something it wasn't, and then called him a communist and a liberal.

It was dishonest. For you to claim otherwise shows a certain level of bias, I suppose because you're worshiping at the alter of libertarianism?
 
Yeah, interviewer was dishonest.
 
There's a lot of libertarian philophy that resonates witn me but, in all honesty, there are also few that I'm ok with not being associated with.
 
X Factor said:
There's a lot of libertarian philophy that resonates witn me but, in all honesty, there are also few that I'm ok with not being associated with.
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Heya X. :2wave: I feel the same with some things.....but then what gets me is those that call themselves Moderate. To me are they not more Libertarian like themselves?
 
MMC said:
Heya X. :2wave: I feel the same with some things.....but then what gets me is those that call themselves Moderate. To me are they not more Libertarian like themselves?
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Hi MMC. :2wave: To which moderates are you referring? Most people that label themselves moderate seem to be more left leaning (of course that could just be my perspective).
 
X Factor said:
Hi MMC. :2wave: To which moderates are you referring? Most people that label themselves moderate seem to be more left leaning (of course that could just be my perspective).
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Pretty much any that use the term.....Like you I see them more with the left slant. As I don't think they are centrist. But then what is the difference with Libertarian left and Moderate?
 
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