Posted on 03/27/2018 1:00:28 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier
As an evangelical Christian I know that God holds up our government leaders as cards that we are being dealt in a dark broken world.
I also know it is more effective against the enemy to fight at the front of the battle than it is to snipe from the rear where you could wound those fighting on the front.
At the rear of the battle is where the future battle plans are made.
There is nothing wrong with disagreements and forming consensus there, but at the front, we need to be united.
Will the United Stated of America still be funding Planned Parenthood after President Trump’s Administration?
I’ve had Libertarians tell me borders are stupid and they hate defense spending. Many of them.
Welcome to Arizona (from a fellow California escapee)!
Libertarians have a problem with just about all federal spending, which is why I am not a libertarian. That said, how much military spending is enough? It is not just libertarians who believe that we could probably substantially reduce military spending if we did not have military bases in 130 countries (?) and a whole host of undeclared, unconstitutional wars. We have that military presence in part to prop up the globalism that you blame on libertarians.
But you claim that libertarians, who have ZERO influence in fedgov, are pulling the R party away from nationalism? The Dems and GOPe are the ones fighting Trump, and they are not libertarian.
On the other hand, libertarians do provide crucial leadership in the Freedom caucus against the swamp. Or would you rather have more spending and globalism?
Not every Libertarian is an atheist, it's just that everyone of them that I have met is an athiest.
There are a whole bunch of religious people in the leadership of the anarcho-capitalist movement: Catholic, Protestant and Jewish. Ludwig von Mises was Jewish. If you read anything at lewrockwell.com, you will find that most there are pro-Trump, anti-Hillary and anti-Bush to varying degrees. The Beltway libertarians (Koch-tarians) are not truly libertarian at all, in the same way that Bushes are not conservative. About half of the libertarians online are Christian, that I am aware of. The opposition to tariffs among libertarians is primarily concerned with taxation and not trade. I would like to see tariffs replace the income tax personally. But I would also cut the federal budget to the bone...
See, it's the great people like you who keep me coming back to Free Republic.
I too have said/written many things for which, with the benefit of hindsight, I would also have said differently--or perhaps, not at all.
My post was to draw attention to this site and to keep us focused on what's truly important.
I'll quote the now famous Q; "Where we go one, we go all."
I'll be around, and in part, it is because of people just like you.
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