There are lots of reasons I no longer consider myself a Libertarian and one of the reasons is, it has become the home for disaffected republicans. For the most part, the loudest libertarians seems to be republican lite.
Like most Republicans claiming some semblance of a conscience, they only unveil themselves as repentant and flee the party when they’re on the way out.
What commitment! What character! What principle!
(what a crock of shit)
Or just plain crazy. It seems a catch all label for a whole range of disenchanted groups.
You supported Ted Cruz, and in disillusionment from the GOP you went to the Libertarians? Oh, you are a very sincere believer, I can tell.
My father-in-law is a Libertarian. He worships FDR (he was a poor boy during WWII, and survived thanks to FDR, and he also had polio). He is a doctor (now retired), and really really hates Obama/Obamacare. I avoid political discussions with him, so I don’t understand the attraction he has to Libertarianism, except that it is very anti-Obama.
One kind of derangement doesn’t like the other kind of derangement. I give him credit for recognizing that authoritarianism is inconsistent with his dreams of neofeudalism, but whatever.
Hey, after the RNC Drumpf-fest last week, anything is possible.
After watching the Bernie Babies antics last night, I’m sure there are folks wanting to bail on the Democratic party, as well.It’s just that there would be nowhere for them to go.
TPM:
Like Cruz, Madsen sees himself as a strict constitutional conservative and believes that “the scales tipped” away in the Republican Party from an emphasis on states’ rights and entitlement reform.
The current direction of the party, he said Monday, “makes me want to cry.”
States rights and entitlement reform were always about screwing minorities, women, and the poor. They were always about “othering” anyone who wasn’t white and wasn’t in the middle class or higher income brackets.
The current direction of the party, State Sen. Madsen, is the direction in which you’ve been leading it all along.
It’s easy to throw a party when you don’t have to pay the bill. Just another charlatan.
‘Largely symbolic’? How about utterly symbolic? Empty suit meets empty gesture.
States rights and entitlement reform are Madsen’s issues? So he’s just pissed that Trump’s GOP just doesn’t want to control women’s bodies or starve poor people enough? He needn’t worry. They still do. They’re just putting more emphasis on doom and gloom and white supremacy this cycle.
The Utah senator will retire at the end of this year and acknowledged that his announcement was “largely symbolic.”
My heartfelt fuckyouvewrymuch isn’t symbolic.
It’s likely the race issue. That and I can almost guarantee he watches Fox News. That poison will ruin people.
The current direction of the party, he said Monday, “makes me want to cry.”
Well boo fucking hoo hoo…
You race baiting xenophobic Faux brainwashed idiots created the Frankenstein .
You own it . The party of NO
Party before country . ALWAYS
Libertarians proved for once and for all how completely full of shit they are, when so many of them lined up behind Bush/Cheney’s Iraq war with gusto.
Of course, there is also the matter of how many of them line up with gusto behind the profoundly anti-choice Ron Paul. (yes, I know he’s a fucking Republican, he’s still a libertarian hero).
This should have been the first sentence not the last
The Utah senator will retire at the end of this year and acknowledged that his announcement was “largely symbolic.”
How brave and principled
Libertarianism is a never-ending search for ways of portraying selfishness as a virtue.
“There may be two libertarians somewhere who agree on everything; I am not one of them.”
– The Anonymous Libertarian
This is not South Africa. People who compare the two racisms miss the fact that, in a sense, the U.S. racist is worse than the South African one*. Whites number 80+% of the population**, not 18%. Trump is creating a white party, and is counting on a supposition that the American whites will overwhelmingly choose that party.
Period
- The South African racist has been described in ways that nearly all here know. What is not emphasized is that, in terms of demographics and “racial purity”, the South African racist is under much greater threat than the U.S,racist. I refer to a book, written by a black analyst which posited that, if there was a command to amalgamate by a mythical U.S. dictator, within a certain number of generations, the black population would disappear (with outliers) while the complexion of the average American would be a tad darker in colour. The conclusions of the analyst were confirmed in an Oct 1993 issue of TIME.
** The white population ALSO contains a number of lighter-skinned Asians and Latinos, who look, think and act in ways that are entirely consistent with the white tribalism required for Republican/Trump thinking
I presume you’re talking about Michelle Malkin and her ilk here.