Posted on 02/10/2009 4:45:13 AM PST by Netizen
looks like rain tomorrow
I have enjoyed reading your posts on this thread.
And I hate to say it, and hate even more that it's true, but what you've said also applies to not a few Republicans these days!
It's a never-ending high you never come down off.
Mostly because you are on drugs all the time.
Being a libertarian means living with an almost unendurable level of frustration. It means being subject to unending scorn and derision despite being inevitably proven correct by events.
Seriously, though, this is more than a little cockeyed. As a libertarian you see all the failures of government and have an answer for them. So yes, you're pretty frustrated all the time.
But that's because government always acts. It isn't going to go away and it isn't going to stop doing what it wants to do. When it makes mistakes, you're the one who points them out first.
But if we really lived in a laissez-faire order, libertarians would be in a complacent fog and other people would be the Cassandras seeing and foreseeing catastrophes everywhere.
in 1997, Charles Murray published a short book entitled "What It Means to Be a Libertarian" that does an excellent job of presenting the core principles of libertarian political philosophy.
Don't tell me Murray fancies himself a "Libertarian". Last interview I watched, he was a socialist who thinks children should be labeled and sorted in a social engineering program.
Sorry, it was not my intent to include ALL Libertarians as "drug-crazed". :)
Please note that I "do battle" nearly every weekend with a Libertarian who's looking for any Constitution-related excuse to shoot at someone—especially cops.
Not going to happen.
That faction is a small subset of Libertarianism, even though most of us have no use for the war on (some) drugs. It' just not a major issue with most Libertarians.
The problem is that critics of Libertarians and the Libertarian party aren't going to give up their straw man, so those kind of comments are always going to be associated with Libertarians
The need something to marginalise what they can't rebut.
Oh cut the crap. What you're doing is the same as those that brand us Libertarians as "Loserdopertarians", hyperbole.
Fact is that all of those factions exist within the Libertarian party, and we manage.
Somebody pisses in your favorite punch bowl and you whine about getting assailed. Get over it. It happens no matter what political party one belongs to. It's called dissention, and it's normal. It's also not a Libertarian view to silence such dissention.
WTF?
Don’t sugar coat it. Say what you really mean.
Thanks, GS!
Then he isn't "a Libertarian", he's a nut case!
If he called himself "a Republican", would you believe that his behavior was about his "politics"? Of course not.
You've got to imagine that not a few yahoos and white supremacists also vote Republican, so what does that say about the rest of us? Nothing!
I've never heard of any Libertarian saying this. Please provide a link.
IMO, the drug-crazed Libertarians need to be marginalized.
As opposed to the crazed pro-drug warrior police state alphabet federal depts trampling on civilian's lives?
We are getting a methadone clinic in our tiny rural town because Americans weren't serious about keeping ALL ILLEGAL drugs away from this country's impressionables. We should have been shooting down known drug flights back in the 80s.
Uh, drugs are already illegal there skippy.
Losertarians need to lose the Open Borders mentality
Libertarians stand on the borders is still stronger than McCain, Bush, and most of the GOP's stand. There wouldn't be any welfare system or anchor baby magnet drawing illegals here in the first place
and pull their collective heads out of the sand on Islam's nukes.
Islam would be a smoking hole in the ground if that would ever happen.
Let me guess: Child porn, drugs, open borders, abortion? Those are all bunk arguments.
Libertarians vehemently oppose child porn just as much as everybody does, and on legal porn it's the parent's responsibility, not the government.
Kids use to buy cocaine and heroin in drugstores at the turn of the 20th Century; did they turn out to be drug addicts?
Yeah libertarians are for open borders, they oppose a fence, and I disagree with them here. But they still oppose anchor babies, welfare handouts, and gov't economic policies that force businesses to hire illegals. With a purely free market Americans would be filling these jobs, not illegals. There would be no incentive for illegals to come here.
And more libertarians are pro-life than pro-abortion, and even the pro-abortion libertarians still oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. The LP has a chapter for pro-life libertarians. Besides, it's hypocritical to call libertarians pro-abortion when at least a good third of all Republicans are pro-abortion.
Look, in this day and age, there's not going to be a Constitutional Amendment banning abortion or even Roe vs Wade overturned. Of course, that doesn't mean it should stop but for now the pro-life movement should do is seize the pro-choice argument by attacking abortion from the economic aspect of it.
i’ll try to switch to decaf ;^D
No transcript appears for that Glenn Beck program who had, once in the recent past, called himself a Libertarian (or libertarian). It was comedy anyway—a parody of Ron Paul rhetoric.
As opposed to the crazed pro-drug warrior police state alphabet federal depts trampling on civilian's lives?
It's drugs that do the trampling of our fragmenting culture—plus Hollywood and our borders.
Uh, drugs are already illegal there skippy.
Not if I was running the Federal show: They'd be gone, along with your freedom to stupify yourselves and enslave our children to stupification—and worse.
Libertarians stand on the borders is still stronger than McCain, Bush, and most of the GOP's stand. There wouldn't be any welfare system or anchor baby magnet drawing illegals here in the first place.
The only Libertarian I've dealt with, who sounds exactly like (and may be) FR poster "Government is the Problem", never answers my question on borders.
Islam would be a smoking hole in the ground if that would ever happen.
I read all your posts with great interest so I can say, that's reassuring!
As a former student, and just out of the Navy, I once worked for the Census Bureau: There is a tremendous amount of slop in those numbers.
I own three houses separated by a minimum of 300 miles. To test the veracity of the 2000 Census, I faked all the answers on the 2000 Census questionaire, placing one family of 15 "Mezquitoes" (native Mexicans) in my 620 square foot mobile home.
Nothing came of it!
==8-O
No doubt. This is exactly the time that we need to cause rifts in opposition to Obama. That's very keen.
I nearly fell off my chair when I read that. That's a good one!
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