Your first paragraph is nonsensical and debate filler. You have yet to demonstrate how intellectualism is the root of all evil.
Political quizzes are worthless. Instead, let’s discuss policy prescriptions and how we should pragmatically tackle the issues of the day while ensuring effective results. For starters, I have yet to debate a libertarian who strongly opposes the Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act (I know many opppse these laws but few are willing to command a debate to persuade others that we would be better as a society without them). Lew Rockwell’s racist articles in Ron Paul’s newsletter was sort of the beginning of the end of libertarianism for me. Second example: should this country overturn the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act because it is an unfunded mandate and federally unconstitutional? I know Ron Paul’s followers admire the good ol’ days when Catholic Churches took care of those who could not afford to pay their medical bills, but we need to look at today’s healthcare system and decide once and for all if hospitals should be allowed to dump patients or refuse treatment. Hipppcratic Oath aside, should we reserve this right to the hospital groups or continue to protect a patient’s right to immediate medical treatment in the event of an emergency. Those who support the latter choose the slippery slope of progressivism, regardless if they self-identify as a libertarian, democrat, or republican.
I think you just completely do not understand my point. It has gone way over your head.
Do you really think that I think intellectuals are all bad, and they have nothing worth to say? What do you think I meant by that? That we should only listen to religious wack jobs or something?
If you do think that was my argument, you are way off the mark... WAY off.
I was giving a well earned reality check that education does not necessarily mean you know what you are talking about or that you know what should be done. Countless intellectuals have failed in the past toying with humanity, catastrophically.
Intellectuals, like myself, need to take criticism even more seriously than the common man because our words are trusted and have power.
And an example? Almost every war.... almost every single decision when it comes to war and policy.... the most intelligent make the most important decisions. It was the Obama Administration that decided it was a good idea to take out Gaddafi and the Arab spring. Now we are suffering the consequences of massive immigration from Arab countries and slavery in northern Africa. Welfare programs in the 60s and 70s contributed to the start of the fall of the African American family to where now more than 70% percent of their households have no father.... and that happened only over the course of 30 years. Minimum wage laws made young black Americans from among the lowest unemployed percentage of any young ethnic group to now the highest. The brilliant Communist of Soviet Russia inflicted their experiment on the common people of Russia to where it ended up hundreds of millions of people dying as a direct result of their policies themselves, and not just their cruelty(When you assume all the best and richest farmers are the best and the richest because of them repressing and stealing from others, you take and divide up their land and give it to the others.... now you have mass starvation, because no... the richest and best farmers were not rich because they exploited people, they were rich because they were competent and hard working and when you take out all the best hard working and industrial people.... you are left with lazy and stupid farmers).
There are literally LIMITLESS policies that intellectuals have come up with that have flat out catastrophically failed, often doing the very opposite of they're stated goal.
And I don't know how this became about my political lean, but dude... you can't tell me what I am, I know what I think and what I believe. Libertarian is the best match of any of the other options.... though I do deviate from a hardcore Libertarians at times lol. As far as my position on civil rights acts, I believe there should be laws saying you cannot deny a service/job/etc. based on someones race or gender,.... though it does feel wrong to force someone to do a service they do not want to do, I think this exception is needed. I am also a severe critic of affirmative action and any other forms of racism sponsored by the government and businesses such as that.
