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Old 11-14-2016, 05:03 PM   #4277 (permalink)
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Not really. It's a trendy way of saying you're a Republican without having to feel like an ******* for voting against civil rights, even though the vast majority of libertarians don't care about civil rights. I'm sure at some point I cared enough about the economic arguments against libertarianism to have an intelligent conversation but it's been years since I lost faith in politics during my deconversion, so I probably can't remember them. But libertarianism is utopian conservatism that would work only marginally better than actual laissez faire capitalism.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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