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To: webstersII
The problem is that most of the time when someone mentions the word “Libertarian” on FR the nuts go crazy over it

Yup, you've got that right about FR so-cons. On the other hand there's lots of other people who like to call themselves libertarian using the "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" line to rationalize support for judicially-decided social policy, Gov safety nets as well as Green delusions of Gov-mandated "alternative energy" solutions. My point is the libertarian label is used by many who may or may not adhere to many of its basic principles. I suppose this is an indication that although people may not fully understand the implications of the libertarian label, it is not as universally hated as some other labels out there today.

12 posted on 12/04/2008 10:07:53 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus
"My point is the libertarian label is used by many who may or may not adhere to many of its basic principles. I suppose this is an indication that although people may not fully understand the implications of the libertarian label..."

And much of that can also be applied to the term "Conservative".

"Conservative" used to apply to those who had an attachment to the Constitution and small government, but we have moved so far away from that model in our current government that it no longer means the same thing.

Instead, "conservative" more describes the attachment to a temporal social model rather than political model, an attachment to "time in the past" rather than a political ideology --hence we have to add on the terms, "neo", "paleo", "fiscal" or "social" to the term "conservative" and it has watered down the basic principle of the word "conservative".

In fact, in order to achieve the original concept of "Conservative", we are looking at a nearly radical departure from the status quo rather than a gradual (conservative) one. And the direction to reestablishing that original concept of conservatism is a bold stride toward a more libertarian model.

16 posted on 12/04/2008 11:27:40 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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