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Everyone is a libertarian on the Internet.
Because it is simultaneously far more progressive and far more capitalist than any previous society.
It is ultra-progressive because billions of people from every race, religion, and ethnicity are on the global Internet. Anyone can speak to anyone,... See more
Balajix.comWhat distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
I used to have a lot of libertarian tendencies. I've read all the standbys of modern libertarian thought: Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, and so on.
So I was very interested in watching Trump speak at the Libertarian Party freak show this weekend.
On the issues of war, guns, property rights, free... See more
Charlie Kirkx.comGiven that a purist "private property rights only" libertarianism inevitably runs into large problems like its inability to fund public goods, any successful pro-freedom program in the 21st century has to be a hybrid containing at least one Big Compromise Idea that solves at least 80% of the problems, so that independent individual initiative can... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
About two years ago I left the Libertarian Party and joined the Republican Party as a liberty republican (which is very different from a Bush/ McConnell republican)
For libertarians, the GOP path taken by Ron Paul, Thomas Massie, Jim Jordan, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, is the best path for... See more
Bruce Fentonx.comI am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.
Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from... See more
David Marcusx.comYour type is progressive. As a progressive you generally embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but advocate for government intervention to control the economy and to redistribute wealth. You tend to tolerate alternative lifestyles, but favor a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged or reduce inequality. Most progressives... See more
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