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The answer is always the same for all ideologies - it requires honest people of goodwill and that they all agree.Call it exercise in self-awareness vs. denial and security in your own beliefs. Are you able to critically examine your own **** and find out if there are way that it does, in fact, stink?
I can start. My ideological lean is essentially libertarian but its greatest deficiencies are general failure to weigh environmentalism against individual rights and that it doesn't acknowledge how protectionistic its economic theoretical underpinnings are, and what the real world implications of that would really be.
Your turns.
Call it exercise in self-awareness vs. denial and security in your own beliefs. Are you able to critically examine your own **** and find out if there are way that it does, in fact, stink?
I can start. My ideological lean is essentially libertarian but its greatest deficiencies are general failure to weigh environmentalism against individual rights and that it doesn't acknowledge how protectionistic its economic theoretical underpinnings are, and what the real world implications of that would really be.
Your turns.
Call it exercise in self-awareness vs. denial and security in your own beliefs. Are you able to critically examine your own **** and find out if there are way that it does, in fact, stink?
I can start. My ideological lean is essentially libertarian but its greatest deficiencies are general failure to weigh environmentalism against individual rights and that it doesn't acknowledge how protectionistic its economic theoretical underpinnings are, and what the real world implications of that would really be.
Your turns.
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the biggest failure of libertarianism is that it fails to provide for the least among us, assuming all can provide for themselves and no one is in need because of circumstances beyond their own control
Is libertarian how you identify?
the biggest failure of libertarianism is that it fails to provide for the least among us, assuming all can provide for themselves and no one is in need because of circumstances beyond their own control
it's hands out of our wallets and out of our bedrooms.
It's not an exclusively Conservative thing.There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. - Pierre Trudeau
It's not an exclusively Conservative thing.
The only one to achieve a surplus in the last 50 years was Chretien.True, but then Trudeau went on to do the very unconservative thing - spending too much money. I liked Trudeau, the elder. Trudeau the junior is an idiot poser.
The only one to achieve a surplus in the last 50 years was Chretien.
I'll call that Paul Martin's surplus.
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the biggest failure of libertarianism is that it fails to provide for the least among us, assuming all can provide for themselves and no one is in need because of circumstances beyond their own control
It's not really wallowing in bedrooms if you are asking permission from the state to be married or have them pay for an abortion.I'm a conservative in the Canadian sense - the government should keep it's hands out of our wallets and out of our bedrooms. The failing of American conservatives is that they have allowed a faction of their political party to hijack the agenda and they wallow too long in the bedrooms of the nation and not enough time counting the dollars as they fly out the door.
As a constitutional conservative with a libertarian lean I recognize that some people are in trouble through no fault of their own and I see local governments be that city or county and charity as the solutions to those problems not the federal government.
It's not really wallowing in bedrooms if you are asking permission from the state to be married or have them pay for an abortion.
Still it was the Liberals who had a surplus.
It's not really wallowing in bedrooms if you are asking permission from the state to be married or have them pay for an abortion.
In spite of the Liberals, Paul Martin had a surplus - Cretien only went along because he knew how powerful the Paul Martin faction of the party was. Paul Martin was the type of Canadian conservative I was referring to - his focus was on the financial health of the country and he didn't care a bit about social obsessions.
Just because you focus on financial matters doesn't mean you are Conservative. He was the one who legalized gay marriage aswell which would say makes him involved in social policy.
This trips me up because I lean libertarian, but I would never think to support, promote, or believe in, some extreme form of libertarianism. Providing absolutely no public safety net does not seem like it's part of libertarian lean, it would seem to be part of libertarian-extremism.not any more and for that reason
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