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In reply to the discussion: Do not... DO NOT Defend Libertarians to me at Democratic Underground. [View all]sadbear
(4,340 posts)57. Most libertarians I know are atheist republicans.
The christian fundamentalist side of the republican party keeps them from calling themselves republicans, but they practically agree with everything else the party stands for.
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onehandle
Nov 2012
OP
Sure is, because people are not binary objects, to be pigeon-holed for convenient hating of them.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#49
It is a mistake to think that people are all one thing and nothing of another.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#106
I used to consider myself a Libertarian. And I did not support Rightist economic policy.
ieoeja
Nov 2012
#126
Yes, left on economic and political issues, laissez-faire on personal issues
Lydia Leftcoast
Nov 2012
#66
"Not sure...there IS such a thing politically as a LEFT-Libertatian..."
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2012
#84
It's propaganda, to give your own political self-label credibility. It's exploitive & self-serving
Orrex
Nov 2012
#164
On the political compass if you go too far to the left it's communism and to the right is fascism...
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2012
#165
I'm amazed that they were able to get all those people to take the online survey
Orrex
Nov 2012
#166
"I'd have thought that Stalin and Berlusconi would have been too busy."
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2012
#167
...because isolating yourself in a self-reinforcing message bubble worked so well for the GOP.
brooklynite
Nov 2012
#2
"Both groups are big mouth charlatans pretending to be something they aren't."-- love it .. nt
leftyohiolib
Nov 2012
#8
The libertarian vote may have been the deciding factor in several races in NH.
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2012
#5
The Libertarian vote for President in FL pretty much matches Obama's margin.
Barack_America
Nov 2012
#80
You're thinking of Libertarianism. 'Libertarians' commonly have little to do with that.
onehandle
Nov 2012
#11
Agreed. I don't know why some of our self-admitted libertarian members are allowed to stay. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Nov 2012
#9
libertarians are nothing more the hard core conservatives who lack a moral comapss.....
bowens43
Nov 2012
#10
Sounds more like an internet whiner that would never say these things to someone's face
Major Nikon
Nov 2012
#65
PLUS zillion. Anyone not voting for the democrats are republicantealibertarians all one and the same
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#15
I feel that way about Republicans, too. When people say about certain pols, "But he's a good
valerief
Nov 2012
#20
Haw-haw, the Libertarians are going to make themselves more unlikeable than they already are...
FSogol
Nov 2012
#30
Ya know, if this came across my transom, I think I'd be happy to see the south side
politicat
Nov 2012
#36
Libertarians = Republicans who like to get high (or admit that they do anyway). n/t
ET Awful
Nov 2012
#38
People are more or less individuals, some more, some less and like lots of fanatics someLibertarians
patrice
Nov 2012
#55
Yes! & also SOMETIMES, because there is individual variation, within a range, some ranges with more
patrice
Nov 2012
#76
I know a parolee who was trying to make it, who is back inside now because Libertarians used him
patrice
Nov 2012
#48
I (like the OP, I assume) was referring to the Libertarian Party, not left-libertarians
Lydia Leftcoast
Nov 2012
#63
Is that a call, by implication, to pressure Democrats out in the work-place? business? or even
patrice
Nov 2012
#61
+1 - the libertarians I know are pro-national security to the point of paranoia.
forestpath
Nov 2012
#62
Just like Socialists, Anarchists, Liberals & Conservatives, so Libertarians are widely misunderstood
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#70
It's also, to some degree, a 2-way street. The ones I know completely misunderstand ANY others. nt
patrice
Nov 2012
#81
I know a freelance Hemp activist, a fine, effective & dedicated person, who was disrespected &
patrice
Nov 2012
#75
I think OP either willfully or in confusion conflates the Libertarian Party with "libertarianism".
Romulox
Nov 2012
#78
And I have not met one who wasn't enraged at paying taxes that would go to those he didn't know.
freshwest
Nov 2012
#104
It's discouraging. But even if their candidates don't get elected, they are destroying civil society
freshwest
Nov 2012
#115
More from the source article, as this isn't just one poster on a Facebook page spouting this:
freshwest
Nov 2012
#121
Thank you. For some odd reason, one of my best friends claims to be a libertarian.
Atman
Nov 2012
#88
Another nice, friendly, all-inclusive 'liberatarian republican' (hey, that's the name of that
codjh9
Nov 2012
#96
Big "L" Libertarian Party types here in the U.S. are either minarchists or anarcho-capitalists
Norrin Radd
Nov 2012
#103
How is that asshole a libertarian if he supports GOP on social issues which are anti-liberty????
themaguffin
Nov 2012
#105
During the W. years there was a HUGE influx of Repubs into Libertarianism...
Blue_Tires
Nov 2012
#111
Yeah, and ladies if your idiot husband voted for Mitt Romney no more blowjobs or sex.
JaneyVee
Nov 2012
#114
In my experience, libertarianism is generally an infantile right wing mental disorder.
infidel dog
Nov 2012
#122