"Whoever the next GOP speaker is, the job will be a living hell "
Well argued, from Karen Tumulty
This is what happens when people run for office to build their personal brands, not pass legislation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/03/kevin-mcarthy-next-gop-speaker-unknown/
As Republican John Boehner described the modern GOP in his memoir,
"What they're really interested in is chaos… They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails and they've finally proved that it's beyond saving.”
When your party helps elect chaos agents (i.e. election deniers, etc...) to office, your party is going to be plagued by those very same chaos agents.
Of course, if you don't care about actually governing...
In a nutshell, this is a fair description of the #GOP. Their #Libertarian financiers only want a large military and policing which protects personal property. Everything else, in the money class view, is excessive overreach and results in higher taxes
These radical types do not want services which enable social mobility. They want to preserve their advantage at the expense of the #AmericanDream and a true #meritocracy
I don't know where you get that libertarian financiers only want a large military and policing when that is the opposite of how libertarianism is generally understood.
It would be like saying vegetarian dinner hosts only want a ton of meat.
So what do you base your proposal on?
But don't forget where military funding comes from: taking people's property through taxation 🙂
Do you have any particular figures in mind who's perspective you're thinking of?
@volkris Sure it’s a viewpoint which would be consistent with Charles Koch. I’d add that most Libertarians, not all, are accepting of taxation for the narrow instances I’ve outlined above.
That's right, there are a couple of different branches of libertarianism, and there are definitely a couple of branches that I would describe as outright anarchism.
On the mainstream, and in particular the right leaning branches, yeah they definitely accept taxation as a necessary evil, but that still doesn't mean they are eager to have governments take more money than necessary to divert it towards military spending, in contrast to what I hear from many conservatives who flat out blindly want to spend that way.
I'll have to refresh my memory about Charles Koch's public positions.
@volkris As I understand right wing libertarianism, it constitutes a viewpoint where property rights are paramount. For example environmental laws which regulate the use of property would not be kindly received. The view forwards national defense is to protect the country from invasion and consequently property rights. Most other governmental activities represent an intrusion on individual freedoms.