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I should have been more precise: right-libertarian and Reagan-style economic libertarian politics. I would still say though that libertarians of the more indepe
by api 11y ago
I should have been more precise: right-libertarian and Reagan-style economic libertarian politics. I would still say though that libertarians of the more independent type have been played as political tools to push for one-sided policies that deregulate in ways that only benefit certain select groups of people.
I would also dispute that liberals (or at least only liberals) were architects of the bailouts, which mostly happened under the Bush administration.
- dnautics 11y agoI mean I don't know how much more right-libertarian you can get than, say Ron Paul, who basically ran on the platform of no bailouts, having predicted the crash of 2008 (he's a perma-bear so that could be a bit of broken clock being right twice a day, nontheless sticking to his guns on the policy). Keeping history in mind: Ron Paul, who supported Reagan in the beginning publically broke with the Reagan administration because of Reagan's non-libertarian economic policy and ran against bush in 1988.
- dnautics 11y ago> I would also dispute that liberals (or at least only liberals) were architects of the bailouts, which mostly happened under the Bush administration. Bush himself called the process of the bailout "breaking capitalism to save capitalism". This is a philosophy that aligns strongly with liberalism - that the government must intervene when the market fails. Should it be surprising that liberals helped architect the bailout?