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Originally Posted by Shotsie
The tea party likes to think they're libertarians. Unfortunately, most of them couldn't even tell you what it means to be a libertarian. Libertarianism is a selfish idealogy. It is a selfish, mean spirited philosophy doomed to failure, any culural anthropologist will tell you that all people within a society are interdependent upon one another. Life is a balancing act and calls for checks and balances to keep it healthy. Sometimes calls for a focus on the individual to effectuate the greatest good. Other times call for a bolstering of the health of the collective to keep things humming in the general direction toward progress. Make one the ultimate master of the other and a shit storm will follow.
It promotes division between the haves and have-nots. The only welfare offered by the quintessential libertarian is that in times of need, pray harder and good luck. Economically it is survival of the fittest, and ignores the fact that humanity is endowed with more than a lizard’s brain. Love and compassion for humanity and our planet don’t fit into the libertarian minset from what I can tell.
Unless you're a fucking multi-millionare you shouldn't be a libertarian, and even then you should question your morals, really evaluate yourself and think about what kind of legacy you'd like to leave behind when you die.
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This wasn't an issue You samplified Tea partiers tı be a Libertarian and i told You they're not.
is Libertarianism a selfish philosophy? depends from which aspect You look it from, however Lots of Humans are selfish natured creatures too, since Libertarianism reflects the most natural desires of Humanity which is freedom from boath social and economic sides, it's normal to sound to be selfish.
on the other hand i have to call what You said about collectivism is a miss conception, Libertarian ideas does not oppose volantary collective fundings and actually offers it as an alternative to welfare state and that's called volantary society which You probabely know.
Yes we got better developped brain than Lizards do and thats why we need a Libertarian system to perform our own potencial.
Lastly You don't need to be a multy millionare to be a Libertarian, every one pay taxes including Middle class and people with low income, think about it, what wil happen when You get taxt around 1% to 10%,? prices will drop and wouldn't it be affecting pourchussing power in a positive way?
and also i don't think only rich need individual Liberties but all of us right?