Ernie: Using politics and the political system to empower people such as by expanding the right-to-vote to include all adults without respect to religion or economic or social status.
Using politics and the political system to empower people such as by expanding the right-to-vote to include all adults without respect to religion or economic or social status.
Please explain to me how this is consistent with libertarianism.
Ernie:Using politics the political system to end segregation and second-class citizenship for an entire category of Americans.
What is ironic about that is that it was the government that enforced those segregation laws.
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Ernie: Daniel: Ernie: Since I am a libertarian myself -- I don't need to "read up" on it. I don't believe you. Ernie:The key point which you are avoiding (understandably) is whether or not you would STILL believe the ideas you have stated here IF your political preferences prevailed in our country, i.e. your political candidates won office, your public policy preferences were adopted, and your values were the operative values within our society?? There reason why this is nonsensical is that there is no positive political system that is consistent with libertarianism. Well, if you don't believe that I am libertarian -- then you are claiming that I am a liar. Which ends our discussion -- except for one final comment: this may explain why your political preferences are not adopted because you engage in ad hominem slurs about people you do not even know.
Daniel: Ernie: Since I am a libertarian myself -- I don't need to "read up" on it. I don't believe you. Ernie:The key point which you are avoiding (understandably) is whether or not you would STILL believe the ideas you have stated here IF your political preferences prevailed in our country, i.e. your political candidates won office, your public policy preferences were adopted, and your values were the operative values within our society?? There reason why this is nonsensical is that there is no positive political system that is consistent with libertarianism.
Ernie: Since I am a libertarian myself -- I don't need to "read up" on it.
Since I am a libertarian myself -- I don't need to "read up" on it.
I don't believe you.
Ernie:The key point which you are avoiding (understandably) is whether or not you would STILL believe the ideas you have stated here IF your political preferences prevailed in our country, i.e. your political candidates won office, your public policy preferences were adopted, and your values were the operative values within our society??
There reason why this is nonsensical is that there is no positive political system that is consistent with libertarianism.
Well, if you don't believe that I am libertarian -- then you are claiming that I am a liar. Which ends our discussion -- except for one final comment: this may explain why your political preferences are not adopted because you engage in ad hominem slurs about people you do not even know.
Lol. Where was the ad hominem? Why do you say "[my] political preferences"? Aren't you a libertarian too? Lol.
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