I once attended two separate Libertarian rallies. I talked with a few people about the platform and the party’s aims.
At BOTH rallies, different people confided the exact same thing:
“It’s all about the free dope. Not ‘free to smoke dope’, but to ‘smoke FREE dope’.”
Not national security, not tax laws, not intrusive government nor civil liberties. But to smoke taxpayer-funded dope.
That’s what I always get from Libertarians too. Chatting with them always starts off as nice calm, low-key discussions about federlism and the 10th Amendment and such (on which we’re usually on the same wavelength). But then, they veer the topic over to DOPE, and their eyes widen and they get entirely animated. It’s their driving factor.
I just can’t have any respect for, or interest in what people say, when their all-consuming passion involves zonking their brains into orbit. The whole hippie-style self-absorption mindset. It repells me. It’s so stunted and just damned un-manly. Someone tells me they are a Libertarian, and I walk away.
same here. Take legalizing drugs out of the equation and they’re democrats masquerading.