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I tell people I'm an anarchist, and the libertarians throw a fit at me. I tell people I think the government should stay out of my business, and the libertarian
by trhr 4y ago
I tell people I'm an anarchist, and the libertarians throw a fit at me. I tell people I think the government should stay out of my business, and the libertarians love me again.
The problem is the label, not the philosophy. If you go far enough left, you get to keep your guns; if you go far enough right, you get to keep your abortions. It's intellectually dishonest to refer to either of those positions as "left" or "right," but at the same time, we have to admit that a lot of people who call themselves "libertarians" aren't actually.