Libertarianism
I was catching up on the back issues of New Yorker accumulating on the coffee table, and read an article about the rise and decline of libertarianism in the GOP. The idea that anything resembling libertarianism was actually popular in the Republican Party is a joke.
Ostensibly, libertarian wants to shrink big government. OK, lets talk about that. The US military is (1) one of the largest government programs, and (2) the most transparently socialist of any government enterprise. Name the GOP politicians who were elected to office demanding steep cuts in military spending in the name of shrinking big government. Some other observations:
• libertarians want the nanny state out of the private lives of citizens; ergo, no libertarian supports any law criminalizing abortion, gender transformation therapy or drag shows;
• libertarians want open immigration; consistent with this principle, they oppose laws that forbid or regulate “undocumented” workers;
• libertarians oppose public schools, libraries, parks, fire departments, police forces, roads and bridges, and food and drug safety regulations.
Libertarianism is the political philosophy of middle school boys and arrested development. The closest thing to a libertarian paradise is Somalia.
They are still out there. Working for Ron Desantis, it seems.
‘… the cast of characters that DeSantis has assembled. Several are affiliated with the Great Barrington Declaration of 2020, a project of the deep-pocketed libertarian think tank American Institute for Economic Research, which argued for lifting almost all coronavirus restrictions before vaccines or effective treatments were available. Though the proposal received widespread criticism, the Great Barrington Declaration caught the attention of the Trump Administration—the authors met with the president’s top Covid advisors in 2020. …’
Meet Ron DeSantis’ New “Public Health Integrity Committee”
Mother Jones – December 16, 2022
this was a check to see if pressing only “comments” instead of “read more”
brought up the “continue” message and loss of comment.
apparently it didn’t.
Joel
so what you are saying is that Repblicans are at least not as bad as libertarians?
but entering an actual comment did.
apparently it only happens with that specific comment…which was not at all offensive.
Inside Ron DeSantis’s Plan to Ride Anti-vaxxism to the White House
Vanity Fair – March 21
(The libertarians of Great Barrington are now with Desantis apparently.)
… an open letter called the Great Barrington Declaration, which criticized the COVID-19 lockdowns and argued instead for “focused protection.” The letter, sponsored by a libertarian think tank called the American Institute for Economic Research, recommended isolating and protecting the vulnerable and elderly, while letting the young and healthy live normally. Allowing infections among the less vulnerable would speed the path to herd immunity, the authors argued. …
Republicans who want to smoke pot …
PLoS One: Understanding Libertarian Morality
Can a Libertarian even be a Catholic? Yes, one is a religion, and the other a philosophy of government but Catholics have never been shy about imposing their order on others through civil law. Both on the street and in the bedroom. DeSantes is quietly, but obviously, Catholic and is working on building a theocratic state based on his religion.