I Was a Card-Carrying Libertarian: Confessions of a Black Sheep Republican
My experience was roughly the same. I was a Libertarian, even helped a woman’s campaign in California when I lived there.
Moving to Texas, I backed off on the party, seeing less reason for it, but I still tended to vote for them.
The final straw was in 2001, a few days after the attacks when the LP blamed us for the attacks.
That was it. No more. I don’t know why so many people confuse libertarianism with pacifism.
I especially agree with your assessment of Reason after Virginia Postrel left. There was not a shred of reason left with Gillespie at the controls and he turned the magazine into pure mindless polemics and anti-americanism.
I can’t vote for a democrat because that would put communists and socialists in power. The republicans had so much promise despite some of their ideological flaws, but they have proven so venal in their corruption that they cannot govern.
So now what do we do, those of us who think freedom from government is a right and worth defending?
