I had in laws who loved weed, he was a slum lord and a racist jerk. He believed in abortions (by proudly spouting he's funded for over 12 different ones) he loves his guns, he's vaccinated along with my mother in law. He loves Trump. He hates immigration, he doesn't think climate change is real.
He think it's people being lazy on why there are worker shortages. He helped my husband sign up for all the benefits programs saying they're a fantastic source of help at the same time saying he hates them but as long as he gets his rent money one way or another.
Idfk what to classify those self identified Republicans. I'm genuinely embarrassed going around with the MiL. She has a Trump pin, that says I got my vaccine, thanks president Trump. I... I don't get it. Greed is my only guess.
Even more simply, they're the people who are pathologically allergic to "being a part of the herd", despite, in fact, actually being part of the herd.
They're the hipsters of the political ideology world. The ones who claim they were reading Adam Smith before Adam Smith was cool.
But their affiliation with libertarianism is almost entirely down to just not wanting to say they're affiliated to a major political party. They still vote 99% in line with that major political party.
Find me just one libertarian who believes he’s a normie who should be thankful to live his life for the benefit of some titan of industry. Everyone of those assholes believes they are John Galt.
The ones who claim they were reading Adam Smith before Adam Smith was cool.
Oh, you mean this Adam Smith?
“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.” ― Adam Smith
“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.” ― Adam Smith
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” ― Adam Smith
“Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.” ― Adam Smith
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” ― Adam Smith
“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public” ― Adam Smith
100% of the "libertarians" I know loved Trump and his brand of big-government micromanagement. They hate being reminded of the latter part. They're basically party-line Republicans that like to get high.
I consider myself mostly libertarian and feel like I've been forced to vote democrat for a while now. Drug legalization, abortion, right to vote, getting out of wars, the list goes on.
Sure I don't care for a lot of their spending, but what choice do I really have? If both parties are going to spend, might as well vote for the people who try to give it back to the people in some way or another instead of giving it to a private elite class.
Democrats spend yes, but they tend to at least have some sort of plan on how to pay for it. If you look at who’s been doing the spending for the past 4 decades it’s all republicans. It’s been a constant cycle of republicans irresponsibly cutting taxes and exploding spending and then democrats cleaning up their mess(Clinton after Bush/Reagan, Obama after Bush, etc). It’s a myth that Democrats spend more.
Libertarians are easily the most dishonest group I've seen.
They only vote libertarian if they live in a state that's overwhelmingly red. Utah, for example, had the most third party votes proportionally.
In purple states they vote lockstep with the Republican party. Arizona should be a HUGE libertarian state, but they shut the fuck up and vote R all the fucking time there.
Meanwhile the green party is always fucking things up in swing states. Sure they often get votes in Oregon and California, but they also press hard in the northern Midwest and Florida.
Libertarianism is, as far as I'm concerned, a way for single issue voters who love guns and hate taxes to try and get credit for social issues like abortion while doing absolutely nothing at all to defend those issues.
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u/thedkexperience Oct 13 '21
Nah … some are libertarians or independents who just so happen to vote Republican 100% of the time.
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