That's the funny thing about people who say they are "libertarian". You guys just define the word however you like. Maybe it the "liberty" part of the word you like. The same trick was used by fascists when they coined the term Nationalist Socialist Party or NAZI party in Germany. They weren't socialist. Not one bit. But the term fooled a lot of left leaning Germans into supporting them.
There is no liberty in the US-libertarian movement. Its more like feudalism than a freedom party. The theory hinges on made up economic theory that begins with the assumption of "free market forces" that self correct because "we said so". I cite the
group that made this shit up directly:
These great thinkers developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics.
Plenty of big and fancy words there. What they say is they reject science and math in favor of untested and unproven axioms. I'll just sum it all up as bullshit.
OK, Soooo, YOUR idea of libertarianism is economic conservatism with low taxes, low government spending, low debt and social liberalism where people make their own choices in their lives, including the bedroom and how they recreate.
We half-way agree. I'm not saying I don't benefit from the low tax rates we have in the US. But I'm pretty tired of how so-called conservatives cut taxes without doing the hard political work of concurrently cutting spending. So-called conservatives made up another baseless theory, trickle down economics. That theory, unlike libertarian ideology, was implemented and they've used that lie to justify yet more cuts in taxes while NOT cutting spending and ballooned the national debt.
So, I don't get it. Why do you continue to follow those chumps?
