I Was a Card-Carrying Libertarian: Confessions of a Black Sheep Republican
I’m just kidding, of course. The US is, by definition, a libertarian-friendly culture. About a third of its founding ideology is based on anti-statism, and another third, based on equality of condition (meaning opportunity), is not something to which most libertarians object. Even our religious sectarianism represents a kind of acceptable religious competition. But, as Stephen suggests, the more liberarians I see taking up the far left’s talking points (including the Toofers) the less likely I am to take them seriously.
I don’t see a single Republican or Democrat Presidential candidate who, for me at least, represents an across-the-board mature perspective. (Duncan Hunter probably comes the closest.) And Ron Paul has far more support than he actually deserves.
I can, however, live with most of the Republican candidates and even some of the Democrats. And that’s mainly because there really isn’t an alternative to the basic anti-totalitarian neoconservative strategy we’ve adopted. No matter what these candidates say, the only differences between them will be how they all choose to implement the strategy.
BTW, I love to argue from the libertarian position… because it’s so easy to defend. Unfortunately that seems to lead to some intellectual overconfidence that worries me.
