[ExI] libertarians nominate none of these

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Mar 25, 2024, at 12:01 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] libertarians nominate none of these
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>> ...Spike, if I have ever met a Green party member I don't remember it...
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> Ja, the Green party is an even odder mixture than Libertarians.  There are preservationists, as I am, but who insist that preservation efforts must be done with private funding.  Greens like big government, which makes them incompatible with Libertarians.
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> Libertarians have the usual all drugs should be legal crowd, which makes me very nervous, the no-borders crowd, which makes me nervous, and a lot of mutually incompatible factions.

If legalizing recreational drugs and allowing free movement of peaceful individuals across national borders makes you nervous, then libertarianism is probably not the right political philosophy for you. (And I’m not talking about the LP, but libertarianism in general. Sure, there are different takes on libertarianism, but if your drug and border policy could fit comfortably inside mainstream politics — which is very anti-libertarian on both issues — then you’re outside libertarianism on these issues.)

Regards

Dan