01-26-2017, 07:41 AM
(01-26-2017, 03:09 AM)Galen Wrote:(01-25-2017, 05:15 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-25-2017, 04:30 PM)Galen Wrote:(01-25-2017, 08:08 AM)Odin Wrote:(01-25-2017, 03:34 AM)Galen Wrote: I must admit that watching the libtards go insane is a very nice bonus. At the very least it will be a very entertaining four to eight years depending on how events unfold.
This is the attitude of a 12yo, not a grown adult.
Not really, because I consider that to be a worst case scenario which you should have picked up from the language I used. I really do consider unwinding Obozo's idiocy, you probably think of it as a legacy, to be a very worthwhile goal.
If you were really a Libertarian, as opposed to merely an edgy contrarian who likes "sticking it to the libtards", you would be siding with us to defend Liberalism (in the broad sense) and Liberal Democracy against Trump and the Alt-Right.
The current incarnation of liberalism is a joke and a bad one at that. Like the founders I am not a fan of unlimited democracy but rather a democratic republic with very limited powers delegated to the government. The democrats tried to give us Hillary, possibly one of the most corrupt people in politics, or Bernie who calls himself a socialist but thought communism was a really neat idea back in the day. I have less problems with Trump than with what passes for liberalism these days.
All I would have gotten is more of the same thing as sixteen years. At that point I may as well support Trump.
Most of the stuff about Clinton is complete and utter bullshit, and Sanders is in his actual policy views (as opposed to his rhetoric) a standard social democrat, neither of them are outside the bounds of Liberal Democracy. Clinton would be considered moderately conservative in other Western countries, akin to Angela Merkel.
In my experience the vast majority of "Libertarians" are authoritarian Social Darwinists, and you are showing that clearly by seeing a Fascist demagogue as a "lesser evil".
#MakeTheDemocratsGreatAgain