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crypto-libertarian "government bad" ideology is one hell of a drug.

• dnautics 7mo ago
  well it was signed into law by obama, so there's that.
  • stvltvs 7mo ago
    I like the guy, but he was GOP-lite as a president, served corporate interests.
    • fc417fc802 7mo ago
      The GOP isn't "crypto-libertarian" by any stretch of the imagination. That's probably even more absurd than the people who suggest the GOP is "financially conservative".
      • forgetfreeman 7mo ago
        The thing there is the GOP was financially conservative a few decades ago and it's like nobody bothered to update the wiki.
        • mrguyorama 7mo ago
          They'll ride it forever. My dad still insists "Protecting the environment is conservative, look at the EPA made by Nixon" as if there hasn't been clear and deliberate anti-environmental policy since then. After 30 years of empirical reality demonstrating that if you want a government that is responsible with money, you must vote democrat, Donald Trump was still voted in because "He's good for the economy" He is not.
          • forgetfreeman 7mo ago
            Late response but I can't leave the assertion that voting Democrat results in fiscal responsibility unchallenged. Their experiment with neoliberal economics and aggressive disinterest in pursuing anti-trust and anti-monopolistic policy have bankrupted most of rural America. At this point if fiscal responsibility is a goal you'd pretty much have to vote 3rd party or independent (for as much good as that does anyone).
  • forgetfreeman 7mo ago
    I'm no partisan. Politicians elected to serve corporate interests come in your choice of red or blue.
    • dnautics 7mo ago
      of course but i think characterizing obama as a Crypto-Libertarian is a disservice to carter, who was actually a crypto-libertarian
  • kristjansson 7mo ago
    yes the president is the law giver, he who conceives, imposes, and bears in perpetuity all responsibilities for all laws passed during his term