On Libertarians

[ashling]

"I have always found it quaint and rather touching
that there is a movement in the U.S
that thinks that

Americans are not yet selfish enough

~ Christoper Hitchens

[dissentient]

1. Hitchens was a pro-Iraq war cheer leader

I get the point he was making about some libertarians, but he was totally wrong about Iraq.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Agree but he was still correct about the Libertarians!

[JaneyVee]

2. Seriously. Constitution says "We the people...",

Not "I the individual..."

[gregcrawford]

3. Libertarianism is the mutant spawn of Objectivism,

Ayn Rand's diseased bumper-sticker "philosophy" of pathological selfishness. Alan Greenspan was one of her sycophantic acolytes back in the fifties and sixties, and WAY too many people in positions of power in this country still think the Sun shines out of her bony dead ass.

That woman was evil down to her DNA, and until any reverence for her beliefs is trampled into the dirt, America will continue its inexorable spiral toward utter destruction.

[ashling]

7. Agreed

[jimlup]

5. Well I think the word - like so many others has been coopted by the insane

I consider myself a "libertarian" in the same way that Noam Chomsky does. So he says that he calls what he is a "libertarian-socialist" if he is in polite company but if he is speaking the truth he says that he is an "anarchist-communist" if you push him. That is what I am as well.

[hifiguy]

6. Libertarians are garden variety greedhead Repukes

who want to watch porn and smoke weed legally.