If you are a social liberal, but like conservative economic positions and like the conservative position of limited government, but can’t realize that social liberalism makes economic conservatism impossible, then libertarianism is for you.
So you think even a ‘smidgen’ of social liberalism is guaranteed to be incompatible with limited government? We already have a bit of a mixture now, ever since Johnson’s welfare and social reforms, some of which have been clipped back a little. Some social programs have to be either dumped or totally revised, such as pension plans. We cannot make that cozy promise anymore, there are too many of us, and we live too long to sustain it. Just ask Detroit about the crushing weight of pension plans, and lifelong guarantees.
If you are a social liberal, but like conservative economic positions and like the conservative position of limited government, but can’t realize that social liberalism makes economic conservatism impossible, then libertarianism is for you.
At least social/economic conservatives can form alliances/truces with libertarians on the economy to push forward market reforms that reduce government interference, it is nearly impossible to do so with communists/socialists...
We don’t need to make more former conservatives into libertarians, we need to make more former liberal into libertarians.
“If you are a social liberal, but like conservative economic positions and like the conservative position of limited government, but can’t realize that social liberalism makes economic conservatism impossible, then libertarianism is for you.”
Yes. Relax yourself. Sit down, if you like. But remember to keep saying the mantra “Rand, RAnd, RANd, RAND”......
That’s the thing about libertarianism: it doesn’t solve the problems that incur the same curses socially that liberalism brings, and potentially wants to expand them as the liberals do. There is a God indeed.