It's funny, but
@chemmie and
@fried-chicken teamed up to explain exactly why I say I'm a Libertarian ...
Let me pull that out for you ...
"always tell people you're Libertarian" --
@chemmie
"It's become necessary ... Libertarians don't typically follow the expected path of agreeing with all things left or right." --
@Crazyhole
"but they actually do fall right into a neat box that people expect: a box of Ayn Rand's childlike philosophies" --
@chemmie
"No, it's because they are always the devil's advocate on anything ... Support a dem and get half your platform done. Or admit you're only a libertarian so you can't be criticized about how awful your team is and you don't want to feel bad about it. The Republican party of sound financial decisions is gone buddy." --
@fried-chicken
So basically
@fried-chicken basically undoes what
@chemmie said and justifies why I do.
@fried-chicken says I'm a Republican, but won't admit it, while
@chemmie says I'm only a Rand disciple and nothing else.
Just WTF is it? Which one?
There's always a Progressive slant to anything
@fried-chicken says. Just like Conservatives like to put a slant in the opposite direction on Libertarians too. He's utterly missing the point that the Democratic party is
not the Liberal party any more, so the other half isn't there either. The
Democratic party is hell-bent on
destroying the remaining 2 Amendments, not just #2, but also #1.
So yes, I'm a Libertarian, and my views will
never be blindly aligned to either the Democratic or Republican parties.
That said,
@Crazyhole nails it here ...
"The reason that libertarians will never be a political power is because they can't agree on anything." --
@Crazyhole
True American
Libertarians -- and true, critically thinking
Liberals (to their credit too) -- are ones who are
not interested in blindly agreeing with each other and pushing an agenda that makes themselves look like hypocrites. We call each other out, debate if Gary Johnson or Ron Paul or Rand Paul is a 'real Libertarian,' and where they faulter in our differing views.
This is what Democratic and Republicans
used to do. But now they are too much about
"you're either with us or against us," trying to turn the other half of the country into felons for committing no crime, and refuse to admit their hypocrisy. We're still seeing Republicans lie about what W. did and Democrats lie about what Clinton and Obama did, lie to themselves first and foremost.
All the meanwhile, we Libertarians are saying,
"Hey, can we stop throwing each other in jail? Especially just regular, everyday people who have committed no real crime?"
So, again, just WTF is it? Are we all just Rand disciples are Republicans in denial? You do realize the two are
completely incompatible, correct?
This is why the 3 of you look like partisan baffoons at times, while
@Crazyhole nails it. True, real Libertarians, like Liberals, are interested in debating the actual issues, and the true nature of our problems -- not some 3rd grader logic that is literally total BS.