More on the topic of GOP libertarians
The most vigorous critics of the long standing subservience of some libertarians to the GOP continues to be — other libertarians. In response to David Friedman’s urging of a new libertarian & Democratic Party coalition, Unrepentant Jezebel of Christsploitation.com writes:
“…I’m not going to allow religious right GOP “libertarians” to overrun a perfectly tenable political philosophy (libertarianism / classical liberalism) in front of me and get away with it.”
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I favor a revolutionary rather than a reformist approach. That doesn’t prevent me from observing that some reformists are more or less hypocritical than others. In fact, it puts me in an excellent position to observe exactly that.
If you think you’re a libertarian, but you support a political party whose head wages aggressive wars of conquest on false pretenses, shamelessly attempts to makes excuses for torture, asserts the President is above the law and, unbelievable as it may be, makes Bill Clinton look relatively fiscally conservative by comparison (the horror…) — then you’re not just wrong, you’re so majestically and completely divorced from reality that one has to marvel in awestruck wonder about exactly how you managed to wedge your cranium so far up your colon.
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Like I mentioned in the transportation thread, I don’t believe there can be serious change in our society and political systems unless it is broken down into steps that are independently feasable politically. Revolutions do happen, but only when the burden of living under (usually) a king becomes so onerous that one might as well stick out one’s neck and risk getting it chopped off. There is not this state of desperation in any modern democracy.
But I agree with you — the conservolibertarians are seriously fucked up. If, in their bid for political clout, they have gone so far as to supporting policy that runs directly the tenets of the beliefs, one has to wonder how firmly the the beliefs are held in the first place.
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