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Originally Posted by Robbie
Dude that's my point...lol
If anybody has to struggle to "understand" any political "theory" then it's not practical.
If a million people considered themselves to all be Libertarians...and one guy (like you for instance) tells them "no, you're not following libertarian theory"...
Then WHO is right?  |
I already said that libertarian's cant govern - in part because it's a very demanding system that requires a smart well educated populace.
But, if millions of people think they are libertarian, but they are wrong, as any quick study of libertarianism will show them, that's an indicator of how stupid we have become as a nation, not a commentary on the original libertarian ideas.
We have allowed ourselves to distort - and allow the media and media owners to distort - the meaning of words, and to use language to deceive instead of to inform.
That's why libertarians can't govern - beause people WON'T be responsible for themselves, because they won't educate themselves, and because they passively allow others to distort their language and make them dumber than they have to be.
It's a shame too because actual libertarian theory and ideas are halfway interesting.
It doesn't matter really, arguably you are right, the people who are calling plutocratic republicanism "libertarian" do control the popular mind, so what we will get is this bastardized mutation that people call 'libertarian' but which is the exact opposite of the origianl 'classic' libertarianism and it's modern variants.