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If you read up-page in some of the other threads you'll find some right/libetarian people who are also against Trump because of how he's pushing us into authori

• dragonwriter 2y ago
  Yes, right libertarians often oppose right authoritarianism, but that doesn't transform support or opposition to right authoritarianism to something that has no left/right valence.
  • throwway120385 2y ago
    Well yeah, in a consensus-based process you have to accept that not everyone is going to agree with you all the time. But you do have to try to push forward on things where there is consensus. There was a county committee that had a libertarian on it who would often advocate from a libertarian standpoint, whereas the people the committee affected were often more left/collectivist. However, he found himself briefly aligned with the rest of the group when a county official tried to do something that was against the law.
    • andrewflnr 2y ago
      Dude, what is your point? We're pointing out a trend and you keep trying to counter by pointing out exceptions. It's the nature of real-life trends to have exceptions, so their existence doesn't even come close to invalidating the model.
• andrewflnr 2y ago
  Good for them on actually paying attention to their principles. The overall alignment is still quite clear, though.