Title: Donald Trump on Libertarianism: 'I like it. A lot of good things.' Source:
ReasonTV URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goAFqNRVsVU Published:Mar 13, 2017 Author:Donald J. Trump Post Date:2017-03-13 22:09:00 by Hondo68 Keywords:tea party libertarian, lot of good points Views:3407 Comments:13
Published on Sep 9, 2015
Today at the Tea Party Patriots' rally against the Iran nuclear deal, Reason TV caught up with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump:
Nick Gillespie: "Hey Donald, what do you think of libertarianism?" Donald Trump: "I like it. A lot of good things. I don't want to talk to you now, but a lot of good things, a lot of good points."
Libertarianism has not yet matured as a political party. There are people within the Libertarian movement who believe in complete opposites of one another. Until this is resolved, the philosophy/party will remain internally fractured.
Libertarianism has not yet matured as a political party. There are people within the Libertarian movement who believe in complete opposites of one another. Until this is resolved, the philosophy/party will remain internally fractured.
This is a common libertarian problem for obvious reasons. In a movement filled with opinionated individualists who tend to have big egos, there is bound to be some infighting and factionalism. This is always going to be a problem for libertarians and one that is difficult to overcome. :)
There are people within the Libertarian movement who believe in complete opposites of one another.
While there are naturally some differences, this statement sounds to me like an extreme exaggeration. The party is based on the philosophy which I expect the vast majority of Libertarians appreciate. The R & D parties, by contrast, do not have any central philosophy driving their platforms. You'll find pro-choice and pro-life people in both parties, for example.
Until this is resolved, the philosophy/party will remain internally fractured.
Until the voting system changes from the plural version to another type (I favor Approval Voting) it will be impossible for any third party to supplant either of them short of a cataclysmic political event, the likes of which I couldn't even speculate on. Under the pluralist voting system which promotes the so-called "wasted vote syndrome" and "vote for the lessor of two evils" syndrome, the R&D parties are like 2 black holes in a close orbit of each other. As long as they do that, nothing else can get close to them.
It's why the only way for a 3rd party candidate to win anything is to register as either an R or D, like Ron Paul did, and to the partial extent Rand is libertarian, him also.
