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It's just another system of control. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires and all that. And once the desire for freedom has been transmuted into support for cor
by mindslight 3y ago
It's just another system of control. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires and all that. And once the desire for freedom has been transmuted into support for corporate authoritarianism, the money flows and the political hacks get to work shoring up the platform for the sponsors.
I don't think 'libertarian' has to be synonymous with 'anarchist', but US libertarianism desperately needs an analog of anarchism-without-adjectives and to drop the axiomatic-fundamentalist approach that ends up fooling so many into supporting authoritarianism. Coercion is not some binary thing, but rather a matter of degree based on power differentials.
- LastTrain 3y agoIf you made a Venn diagram of self-proclaimed libertarian’s beliefs, the center would be empty. That is the practical definition of libertarian in today’s world.
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- mindslight 3y agoCould you not lay this same criticism at the feet of the other political parties as well? Due to the way plurality voting works, the incentive of each party is to be as large as possible (at the expense of group consistency), and the incentive of each individual is to align themselves with only one party (at the expense of accurately expressing all of one's views).