Rightwing86
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Hey all. Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th!
I am a Libertarian but sometimes I just feel that it is futile.. it makes me not want to vote.. I mean sure I could have voted for Bob Barr.. but he kinda irked me in a way I cannot explain. I could have voted for Ron Paul even though he was on the Rep. ticket...
Well ok, where am I on the political scale? I have taken all those X axis Y axis tests and all that.
To give you an example..
Pro Choice. (states)
Favor small government.
Favor privatization of most industry in the U.S.
Pro gay marriage (states)
I do support the War in Afg. (Even tho Libertarians tend not to).
Against gun control.
For stem cell research (states)
I am for individuals rights until it infringes upon someone else's.
For legalization of most drugs with certain rules and regulations to prevent driving, working on drugs etc.
Don't I fall into their camp? If I do... I just feel that it's a fruitless endeavor to try and explain my views... we will never win an election it seems, our time has come and gone considering we are pretty much classical liberals of the era of our founding fathers.
We make up such a small portion of the country... everyone thinks were nuts. It's just damn depressing. I don't want to throw myself into the other two main parties cause I don't like hardcore liberalism and I do not like the religious right trying to ban porn, and all these other things they try and do really make me mad. (not just the banning of porn either.. lol
And how would Libertarianism really work.
I tell people that I support Kavorkian (sp) because if someone wants assisted suicide than that is their choice and the government should not be able to intervene. But.. what happens if a person is mentally unstable and than gets the doctor to help them commit suicide.. should we have to test the mental stabability of every person who wants assisted suicide?
Or how about like a case I learned about in Criminal Law: A man wanted his wife to stop drinking and being an alcoholic, she wanted to stop was well. So she signed a written agreement that she wrote herself giving her husband permission to beat her if she drank. He ended up beating his wife a lot, and the police got involved and he went to prison. What would a libertarian's position be in this position? Considering an adult signed a consenting agreement to be beaten by her husband?
Thanks all I await your answers!
I am a Libertarian but sometimes I just feel that it is futile.. it makes me not want to vote.. I mean sure I could have voted for Bob Barr.. but he kinda irked me in a way I cannot explain. I could have voted for Ron Paul even though he was on the Rep. ticket...
Well ok, where am I on the political scale? I have taken all those X axis Y axis tests and all that.
To give you an example..
Pro Choice. (states)
Favor small government.
Favor privatization of most industry in the U.S.
Pro gay marriage (states)
I do support the War in Afg. (Even tho Libertarians tend not to).
Against gun control.
For stem cell research (states)
I am for individuals rights until it infringes upon someone else's.
For legalization of most drugs with certain rules and regulations to prevent driving, working on drugs etc.
Don't I fall into their camp? If I do... I just feel that it's a fruitless endeavor to try and explain my views... we will never win an election it seems, our time has come and gone considering we are pretty much classical liberals of the era of our founding fathers.
We make up such a small portion of the country... everyone thinks were nuts. It's just damn depressing. I don't want to throw myself into the other two main parties cause I don't like hardcore liberalism and I do not like the religious right trying to ban porn, and all these other things they try and do really make me mad. (not just the banning of porn either.. lol
And how would Libertarianism really work.
I tell people that I support Kavorkian (sp) because if someone wants assisted suicide than that is their choice and the government should not be able to intervene. But.. what happens if a person is mentally unstable and than gets the doctor to help them commit suicide.. should we have to test the mental stabability of every person who wants assisted suicide?
Or how about like a case I learned about in Criminal Law: A man wanted his wife to stop drinking and being an alcoholic, she wanted to stop was well. So she signed a written agreement that she wrote herself giving her husband permission to beat her if she drank. He ended up beating his wife a lot, and the police got involved and he went to prison. What would a libertarian's position be in this position? Considering an adult signed a consenting agreement to be beaten by her husband?
Thanks all I await your answers!