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Originally Posted by Mykonos
Like most things, Libertarianism has its place in politics. It's just the people that take it too far or interpret it to mean the government is a big ol' bully that shouldn't do anything it wasn't doing in the 19th century that damage its credibility. I wouldn't consider people like Ron Paul libertarians, I'd consider them idiots.
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I gotta ask...Do you actually know his politics or are you just as misinformed as the American public? 'cause if memory serves me correct you're British, no? Normally it wouldn't matter but this is American politics are not a typical void of discourse.
There is a fundamental divergence between the British and American vision of civil liberties. In Britain, everybody is expected to be able to eat, sleep, and have sex. In America, we only get to eat and sleep. Sex is considered something that you need to earn, and this is where people jump down opposite ends of the rabbit hole.
It's not like libertarians want anything extra for themselves (which is why there's such a huge gap of perception and a certain stigma of greed between Socialism and libertarianism), it's that they believe the application to meeting those needs should be individually driven, rather than rule-governed.
I wouldn't expect you to understand American fundamentalists. The TRUE libertarian party would be something like the political schema of Alexander Hamilton, not
Bob Barr. The way Ron Paul explains legalization of all recreational drugs is as common sense as possible:
If heroin was legalized tomorrow, would you go out and do it? No? Why then would you not legalize it, and just tax the sh
it out of it? Who actually cares about the tax besides NON-PARTICIPATORY junkies?
The fact remains that the people looking to seek these drugs will ALWAYS find a way to do so (it's why they're addicts!), no matter whether it is LAWFUL or not to do so. Why then should we have a SOFT law in place to catch non-violent criminals ?
I don't mean to be preachy but I grew up entrenched in the tenets of socialism. I found out early, it doesn't even work on a micro scale. There's always a f
ucking mooch in your group of friends, and you know it. He might not, but you definitely do.
Think. For. Your. Self.