Why Should Liberals Like Libertarian Ideas?
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Domingo Halliburton
Handmade in USA
edit: let me preface this by saying I didn't watch the video
don't they go pretty liberal on a lot of social issues?
don't they go pretty liberal on a lot of social issues?
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
I stopped listening when he reductively and without data claimed states as the major sources of death in the worlds history. I thought this was gonna be an interesting economic comparison maybe with some negative income tax but its just pandering conversion material.
@DEAD7 is this part of your weekly viral marketing quota for the Mises Institute
@DEAD7 is this part of your weekly viral marketing quota for the Mises Institute
I stopped listening when he reductively and without data claimed states as the major sources of death in the worlds history. I thought this was gonna be an interesting economic comparison maybe with some negative income tax but its just pandering conversion material.
With the exception of mother nature, what has caused more human deaths than big government? I'm fully ready to accept his claim as false if you can provide evidence.
If you want to place the burden of proof on libertarians, we will point to communist Russia communist China, and nationalist/socialist Nazi Germany.
To the left of liberals on almost every social issue.
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
With the exception of mother nature, what has caused more human deaths than big government? I'm fully ready to accept his claim as false if you can provide evidence.
If you want to place the burden of proof on libertarians, we will point to communist Russia communist China, and nationalist/socialist Nazi Germany.
The whole point of the state is to provide a buffer against mother nature
Brown_Pride
All Star
People kill people, government don't kill people. Can't have freedom and then pawn off responsibility on a metaphysical "Big Government" entity.
With the exception of mother nature, what has caused more human deaths than big government? I'm fully ready to accept his claim as false if you can provide evidence.
If you want to place the burden of proof on libertarians, we will point to communist Russia communist China, and nationalist/socialist Nazi Germany.
No they're not.
I don't need to be a libertarian. I'm already a liberal basically.
Libertarians are borderline treasonous selfish a$$holes.
With the exception of mother nature, what has caused more human deaths than big government? I'm fully ready to accept his claim as false if you can provide evidence.
If you want to place the burden of proof on libertarians, we will point to communist Russia communist China, and nationalist/socialist Nazi Germany.
Russia, China, Germany...You done?
So the dude in your video doesn't have to provide evidence x but people who disagree with him do?
With the exception of mother nature, what has caused more human deaths than big government? I'm fully ready to accept his claim as false if you can provide evidence.
If you want to place the burden of proof on libertarians, we will point to communist Russia communist China, and nationalist/socialist Nazi Germany.
I agree 100%, but big govt.(and its concentration of power) is what makes true atrocities possible. To say this isn't true is to ignore history.
Drug legalization, gay marriage, equal rights, take your pick. What do you think democrats are left of libertarians on?
Prince Cairo
Authentic
Libertarians are generally two kinds of people: high school/college kids that want Ron Paul to be president because he promised to "legalize", and are unaware that under a libertarian president their student grants and their free education might altogether vanish; and an older, more cynical class of voters who thinks that ultimate self-reliance and minimal economic regulation is sustainable in a country this size.
Don't get me wrong, I've read plenty of literature on the ideology and love many of its principles dearly; particularly the strong non-interventionist foreign policy, vast social freedoms, and a devotion to the Bill of Rights (namely the 2nd Amendment). Big government sucks and is necessarily oppressive, but the complete opposite can't be the only viable solution.
Don't get me wrong, I've read plenty of literature on the ideology and love many of its principles dearly; particularly the strong non-interventionist foreign policy, vast social freedoms, and a devotion to the Bill of Rights (namely the 2nd Amendment). Big government sucks and is necessarily oppressive, but the complete opposite can't be the only viable solution.