To clear up any misunderstanding, this is how I would distinguish myself from other forms of Libertarianism.
Government regulations are not the point, you still need some regulations to keep a business from poisoning your food. The problem is who is doing the regulation.
Combine this with government obsession with victimless crimes, and you have modern American authoritarianism.
The key here then, is removing victimless crimes. You'd be surprised how many calls this a right leaning position.
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@LWFlouisa I'd say thats pretty much standard libertarianism. It was NEVER about eliminating government regulations for anyone. It was always about moving the power to regulate from a national level to a local level. Otherwise it would just be Anarchy.
@freemo when, not with.
@LWFlouisa Lefties disparage anything that isnt identical to their own identity. It is the nature of the left to be completely intolerant of everything in the extreme.
@freemo I have a question though, why is it, particularly the authoritarian left (I don't mean the greens) seem to like calling the Tea Party Libertarian?
Some of the Tea party goals, at least seem the inverse of libertarian.
Fairly sure Cassie may have been Tea Party.
I guess I'll look it up.
@LWFlouisa It mostly has to do with the extreme left's way of thinking which is to lump everyone into one category in an attempt to defame your competition.
You see it with their use of "Nazi", anyone they disagree with or doesnt support EXACTLY their set of race-oriented policies is a Nazi and in their mind somehow indistinguishable from anyone who wants to gas and murder an entire race (melodramatic much, lol).
They do the same with the idea of a tea party/conservative/republican. All the same to them, just some party that isnt theirs so must be evil and therefore like every other evil party.
@freemo And you the ironic part? Sometimes it seems like the Left is actually the most racist.
Though I feel dirty honestly using the race word.
@LWFlouisa The extreme left is more openly racist. The extreme right isnt as obvious but just as racist.
Both groups are racist towards an opposite set of races though it appears.
Important to point out its only the extreme ends of both parties that are the worst. The more reasonable people arent so bad. Sadly the extremism in each part is the overwhelming majority of people :(
@freemo Ah good so you got it.
I was a little worried as my internet outages are ... weirdly timed these days.
@freemo Sort of like Mastodon in a way, or Diaspora when I was more ... idealistic. As weird as that is to say about me.
@freemo Exactly! It's so sickening with modern "lefties" disparage libertarianism.