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Originally Posted by silasgreenback

I've voted Libertarian through several elections, but truthfully, I fall under "Bizarrely Hypocritical".

Socially Libertarian, very much yes. Economically, I don't want Wall Street to have any more of a claim to my life and corpse than they're already allowed.

I used to be a member of that party, but I quit after I realized that there is no, and has never been, a true market economy, and it might not even be a good thing to have no state controls. Mostly I got fed up when I observed that almost all the members were millionaires and businessmen and all they cared about was not paying taxes - something I sympathize with (at least a flat tax). I think the Libertarian Party has been co-opted by rightists. Though

I did enjoy watching Rand Paul fillerbusting the renewal of the Patriot Act.

Party-line Libertarians tend to be like Trotskyites, intellectual ideologues - which is why I admire and keep at a distance both so much.

To using calibre in another section...