12-04-2016, 09:58 PM
(12-04-2016, 11:39 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(12-04-2016, 04:12 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(12-03-2016, 08:58 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I would take exception to describing the libertarian conspiracy as 'vast'.
I would not, since it applies not just to the Libertarian Party but to Reaganomics/trickle-down-- the whole free-market caboodle. Conspiracy: spend much, tax little, increase the debt, and thus reduce the size of government to fit in a bathtub. Precisely stated as such by the conspirators; widely proliferated conspiracy. And it's the biggest problem that we have today.
The only thing that would make it not a "conspiracy," perhaps, is that it's not a secret. But the real secret is, the slogans are deceptive, and too many people don't realize that fact. Resentment against poor (ethnic) "freeloaders" receiving government benefits "from my taxes" powers the phenomenon.
The conspiracy is so vast that the most dedicated conspirators practically own the internet, where they congregate out of proportion to their real numbers.
I prefer to distinguish between the Republicans and Libertarians. Both share a preference for economic schemes that increase the division of wealth, but the Republicans push cultural issues like guns and reproductive health care more. This makes enough difference to me to count.
Sure, that's true; but both groups are part of the vast libertarian conspiracy, because they both push libertarian economics, and that's what counts the most. And it's what they have delivered on for policy and control of the country for 35 years. The Republicans alone have been less successful on the cultural issues, though both parties/groups have also been successful pushing their libertarian policy on the public safety issue of guns.