[firebrand]

It comes from an attempt to squeeze everything into a rigid philosophical system. Every once in a while you have to stand back and look at things with unadulterated common sense. You can’t do that if you’re doctrinaire.

[rdb3]

It comes from an attempt to squeeze everything into a rigid philosophical system. Every once in a while you have to stand back and look at things with unadulterated common sense. You can’t do that if you’re doctrinaire.

That's exactly why I departed libertarian thinking as I politically matured. I mean I was all-in with it!

Yet, mentally trying to shoehorn everything into libertarian doctrine wasn't lining up with reality as I got older. I think I was 23 at the time when I accepted virtually everything about it.

That was 21 years ago.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

- 1 Corinthians 13:11

Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.