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Title: Libertarians and Democrats Need to Fall in Love Again
Source:
New Republic
URL Source: https://newrepublic.com/article/138 ... rians-democrats-need-fall-love
Published: Nov 26, 2016
Author: GRAHAM VYSE
Post Date: 2016-12-08 09:20:18 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 1935
Comments: 10
Trump's authoritarianism warrants a return of the "liberaltarian." These are dark days in Washington, but a tiny bit of good news broke on Monday— an earnest across-the-aisle gesture, made in good faith, that should give heart to the anti-Trump resistance in its infancy, and perhaps even suggest a path forward for defending American democracy. In a show of solidarity with their left-leaning brethren, the libertarian group Students for Liberty posted an open letter to College Democrats, commiserating about the direction of the country and offering to work with them on issues where they agree—namely immigration, criminal justice reform, aversion to military intervention, and First Amendment rights. They even offered resources to Democrats. “We provide grants, training, activism resources, and access to a network of pro-liberty students not just in the United States, but all around the world,” the group wrote. “Whatever your issue of choice is, we’re here to help make sure pro-liberty beliefs, whether expressed by libertarians or liberals/progressives, are represented on college campuses across the country (and world)! We’ll never subject you to a purity test or demand allegiance to any particular candidate or approach. As long as your message is pro-liberty, we’re more than happy to help.” Politics periodically makes for strange bedfellows, and cooperation between libertarians and the left is a storied, if sporadic, tradition. As Ed Kilgore wrote in The New Republic in 2010, “These two groups were driven together, in the main, by common hostility to huge chunks of the [George W.] Bush administration’s agenda: endless, pointless wars; assaults on civil liberties; cynical vote-buying with federal dollars; and statist panders to the Christian right.” This alliance peaked in the 2006 midterms, when nearly half of libertarian voters backed Democratic congressional candidates. Everyone from Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas to the Cato Institute’s Brink Lindsey were hailing the arrival of the libertarian Democrat—or “liberaltarians,” as Lindsey coined them in a New Republic essay that sparked political opinion for years to come. […] Wherever libertarians organize in opposition to Trump—from college campuses to Capitol Hill—Democrats should be ready to find common ground with them. Against his authoritarianism, liberals and libertarians should link arms, hoist that Gadsden flag high, and declare together: “Don’t tread on me.” Click HERE to read the remainder of the article. Poster’s Comment:
Hondo, Deckard and Buckeroo:
This may be “Fake News.”
Who would ever think that libertarians align themselves “in a show of solidarity with their left-leaning brethren, the Democrats?”
***Snicker***
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
Add drug legalization. Liberals and libertarians may agree on those issues, but the implementation is vastly different. Liberals want these things because they want larger government. Libertarians want these things because they want smaller government. The ultimate goals are incompatible.
True. And in the end, when the things come to be, the larger-government forces will win out, because organization has a momentum of its own that disorganization cannot ever match. Never could. This was true even back in 1066 (per Kipling): ENGLAND'S on the anvil - hear the hammers ring - Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne! Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King - England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into line! England's on the anvil! Heavy are the blows! (But the work will be a marvel when it's done.) Little bits of Kingdoms cannot stand against their foes. England's being hammered hammered, hammered into one! There shall be one people - it shall serve one Lord - (Neither Priest nor Baron shall escape!) It shall have one speech and law, soul and strength and sword. England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into shape!
I am a dumb ass and don't know how to behave so Stone had to edit my post and
replace it with this. Greetings
A K A Stone
FAKE! That's not even a word. Your Marxist brethren of the Juan McCrazy ISIS Reconquistas, made that up! tater is a babbling idiot.
Pebbles is too. What a tool!
FAKE! That's not even a word. The word was enclosed in quotation marks for the intended purpose of using quotation marks. Read the word "liberaltarian" again and you should, even with your limited mental capacity, get the author’s meaning. If you don’t….then get Deckard explain it to you. Wait! Have Deckard try to explain something? NEVER MIND …
FAKE! That's not even a word. The babbling idiot tater thinks he's being clever. A weird guy that suggests otherwise about his little korner of the inet.
Thus, is why this forum (and LP before it) continually sounds like a blog from Facebook site, Being Liberal. The filthy liberal similarities of the two are why the wheelchair republican, RimJob, booted the filth off... thus LP was born. It's why you hear more AGENDA POSTING hatred about Bush than the exiting racist socialist.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
"and offering to work with them on issues where they agree -— namely immigration, criminal justice reform, aversion to military intervention, and First Amendment rights.
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
The ultimate goals are incompatible.
#3. To: Gatlin (#0)
#4. To: Gatlin, ISIS Canary, McCain Reconquistas, Gated Progressive Marxists, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#0)
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the "liberaltarian."
The "anti-establishment" establishment
#5. To: hondo68, tater (#4)
#6. To: buckeroo (#5)
#7. To: hondo68, ALL (#4)
the "liberaltarian."
#8. To: hondo68 (#4)
the "liberaltarian."
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
Pebbles is too. What a tool!
#10. To: misterwhite (#1)
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