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Libertarians: Helping the Fascists, Every Damn Day. LIKE IT'S THEIR JOB.

Very frustrated as I see Libertarians helping Republicans wreck democracy.

Every Libertarian Party candidate has two things in common: they are pretending Republicans are not fascists trying to wreck democracy, and they are pretending Democrats are just as bad as whatever it is they are pretending Republicans are.

For the record, Republicans are fascists.

Democrats are neo-liberals and social democrats. Neo-liberal influenced social democracies are the most libertarian societies in history, from Canada to the Scandanavian countries.

Republicans have never been more authoritarian, and Democrats have never been more libertarian. As the Southern Strategy worked its evil, it brought he northern and southern racists and authoritarians under a white Christian banner in the Republican Party.

Through no work of their own, Democrats just got more libertarian as these authoritarians left. Then I became a Democrat, and they got MUCH more libertarian in one day (haha right).

Anyway, Republicans have decided democracy had its chance and now we need a white Christian dictatorship.

Democrats are standing against that, on shaky legs. None of them have ever beaten fascism before, and neither have I. I just know we have to work for freedom if we're going to keep it.

I am a libertarian and was an LP libertarian supporter my whole life: until I made a big error backing a guy I really liked (Gary Johnson) instead of Hillary, whom I still don't like, and to whatever extent I hurt Hillary I helped fascism rise in the US.

I had NO idea the whole Republican Party would shift to Trumpism and change the entire liberty dynamic in four years. I was wrong, and Libertarians are wrong now.

Freedom sometimes isn't about preference. It's not the automat. It's something people sometimes have to fight for. Like now.

In race after race, Libertarians are pretending the two are the same, that it's a "duopoly." It's not. Not now. Maybe not ever.

Don't vote third party. Please.

That's how Hitler took over. The anti-fascist vote divided, and he won in a plurality. It wasn't the same as here. The Weimar Constitution was weaker than ours, but still, history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Similar dynamics, adapted to our special circumstances. That's how fascism works.

If you believe in democracy, take fascism seriously and vote for democracy, not ideology. Vote Democratic.

 

The Biggest Mistake Libertarians Ever Made

I think the biggest mistake libertarians ever made was to think "anti-statism" was the way to go instead of "anti-authoritarianism." The state is how liberty is ESTABLISHED, and how rights are brought from the imagination into reality. To date, there is no other way to do that. The abuse of such is authoritarianism, and yes is also potentially the greatest threat to liberty and human rights.

However, before the state brought rights into reality, there was nothing more than claims and wars over those claims.
 

No state, no liberty. No liberty, no libertarianism.

Before You Judge Libertarians Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

 

Libertarians When You Mock the Left vs When You Mock the Right

 

Justin Amash -- the Man, the Dream, the Reality

Libertarians Want What Progressives and Liberals Say They Want

(President Gary Johnson and Vice President Bernie Sanders of Earth JW-42017)

When I look at what people actually say and do, the mainstream left, from Bernie to Obama to Hillary, claim to want to make America more like Sweden and Denmark. Both of those countries are more libertarian than the USA by the numbers. If they want Sweden or Denmark, that's not socialism, that's regulated capitalism with a safety net, and more personal freedom than the USA, with higher taxes and a bigger/more comprehensive safety net.

Most conservatives never say what they want, since it's in Cloud Cuckooland of the past or future, but they seem to want Singapore. Free economy with a police state to "win the war on drugs/terror/etc." Or Russia. Russia's right wing, authoritarian federalism....new conservatives seem to like that.

In practical matters, we have a lot in common with liberals. We both want to move society in the same general direction: more liberty overall.
In ideological matters, we THINK we have more in common with conservatives, but I'd say that was a marriage of convenience largely due to the Cold War, and we created a narrative that worked.

If we set aside utopian dreams and ideological rigidity, imagine what we can do. For now, we want the same basic thing: a society with more economic and personal freedom. We can work together to make that happen, and create more liberty, opportunity, and abundance.


Reference: https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index

The Christian Label

As is often the case around Easter, in between the debate about whether Jesus came out of an egg when he was resurrected, or the bunnies announcing the good news....there are several misconceptions I keep seeing about Christians and Christianity.
People seem to mean "right wing evangelical Christianity" when they say Christian. That kinda sucks, because mainstream Christians aren't all that conservative, and there are even a decent amount of moderate and progressive evangelicals.

Religious labels are hard -- maybe harder than political labels -- and there are progressives, liberals, libertarians, liberaltarians, conservatives, conservatarians, anarchists, and whateverists, in just about every denomination, and non-denominations as well.
All, that, plus just about every denomination has members who are ready to split over some issue they dissent on. The melting pots bubble over and form new soups and stews of ideas and spiritualities. It's actually quite beautiful.

Anyway, I think it's good to remember we are in weedy territory, and to be careful with sweeping generalizations. I know I have to remind myself a million times a day about this.

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