One main difference between regular leftists and libertarians is that regular leftists are upfront with their agenda, whereas libertarians are quite coy, and use many duplicitous methods to pretend that they really love the Constitution. The other main difference is they want to have guns and low taxes. Other than that, it's hardcore leftism veering into anarchy. Another utopian idiocy that if ever practiced, would create utter social breakdown and chaos in short order. Which would of course lead to the jack booted thuggism they hate.
It's comic book utopianism because anyone not doped out can see it for what it is. I'm sure not all libertarians use drugs, but enough do that it's sort of a herd immunity thing.
Well said, lj.
One of my sisters has decided recently that she is a libertarian, and that she dislikes conservatives. Oy. She also switched from being Catholic to some religion that she refuses to define. Sometimes being from a large family isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
You may have noticed that outside of the religion pages, the most feverishly religious posters we see, are the libertarians on the gay marriage threads.
At some point they suddenly switched to libertarian arguments in the name of some greater spirituality and Christian commitment to God, a sort of 'greater truth' a more 'pure commitment' to the "long run" if you read libertarian articles you can see where these sudden switches in arguments and strategies come from.
Do you notice how the pro-gay marriage arguers are sounding like bible waving ministers?
Every gay marriage thread turns into the libertarians and liberals making it look like a religion thread, with the pro-marriage people being the bad guys.