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To: DManA

Wrong, I used to think I was a libertarian and realized that I could never be one because to be a libertarian, you must embrace everything about it, i.e., abortion, open borders, crack heads, anarchy, etc.

The brain is definitely working, it’s just most libertarians are half-assed libertarians.


6 posted on 06/11/2014 6:32:35 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: lormand
I'm actually a Paleocon, more or less in the Barry Goldwater mode. I tend to caucus with the libertarians because that's the closest thing I can find to something that represents me these days.

Not a doctrinaire big-L Libertarian, but I think a strong admixture of small-L libertarian principle in our country's politics would do it a lot of good right now.

13 posted on 06/11/2014 6:36:56 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: lormand

I dont see Libertarianism as an all or nothing proposition. Like Conservatism or Liberalism/Progressivism there’s a continuum along which an individual can be located. And placement upon that continuum can occur at multiple points depending on views on specific issues.

Indeed, if you look at the Libertarian continuum youll see the hippie anything goes dope smokers on one side, and the Ayn Randian/John Galtesque types on the other. And they are distinctly different creatures.


16 posted on 06/11/2014 6:41:35 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: lormand
because to be a libertarian, you must

Exactly, precisely, 180 degrees wrong.

17 posted on 06/11/2014 6:42:50 AM PDT by DManA
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To: lormand

Libertarians ignore reality/experience more than conservatives. They ignore the stink hole America would be if they got are their crap legalized.


29 posted on 06/11/2014 7:01:15 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: lormand

What a pantload.


32 posted on 06/11/2014 7:06:51 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: lormand

You’ve never heard of Libertarians for Life?


79 posted on 06/11/2014 8:03:20 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: lormand

that’s a big ‘L’ Libertarian


88 posted on 06/11/2014 8:21:45 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: lormand

I don’t agree with the statement. People need to be responsible for their personal behavior both legally and in private and it doesn’t mean I don’t support laws against society for drug use or other criminal activity!

As for personal responsibility if a person chooses to go down that path then they should be on their own with no government safety net programs available to them. That means no funding for abortions or drug treatment programs.

That’s just my take


108 posted on 06/11/2014 8:58:13 AM PDT by shotgun
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