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An individual who supports and believes in liberty. Libertarians believe that people should be free to do whatever they want to do, just as long as their actions do not harm other people or infringe on the rights of others.
Libertarian Misconceptions:
1) "All Libertarians are stoners." Just because we want to legalize something, that does not mean we condone that behavior. People should be free to put whatever they want into their own bodies without the government's say-so. I may not agree with certain behaviors, but that doesn't give me the right to dictate other peoples' actions.
2) "Libertarians are fine with poor people starving in the streets." Actually, we think that's terrible. Libertarians typically oppose government welfare because it relies on force. It is immoral to forcibly take money from an individual in order to give it to another person. That is theft. Libertarianism promotes voluntarism and private charities. It is compassionate when one chooses to donate money to the poor, however, when the government forces people to do this, the act no longer becomes sincere.
Libertarian misconceptions (continued):
3) "Libertarians are isolationists." False. We're non-interventionists. We promote free trade and diplomacy with other nations. We do not support intervening in the internal conflicts of other nations. Doing so creates enemies and leads to potential blowback; which, in effect, does isolate us from the rest of the world.
4) "Libertarians hate old people." We don't hate old people. We just believe that social security is a bad deal for everybody. Todays retirees are getting less and less money than from what they were 'forced' to pay into the entilement program. If social security is such a great thing, why is it mandatory? We believe that people should be able to save for their own retirements however they see fit.
5) "Libertarians want a society where Wal-Mart controls everything." We're pro-free market. Not pro-corporation. Libertarians believe that corporations should be separated from the state. Therefore, there shouldn't be any special government hand-outs, protections, or priveledges. Monopolies very rarely occur in a pure free market. They almost always arise because the goverment grants special priveldges to a business. Contrary to popular belief, large corporations actually lobby the government for more regulations to hurt the competitors.
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Someone who doesn't care about what you do as long is doesn't affect them.
"Wow, that guy's such a libertarian"
"Yeah I know, he just left me alone"
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The only people in this country with common sense.
The Libertarian platform is this-
"We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose."
That means that abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, property rights, etc., etc. would not be regulated or prohibited. Robbery, murder, vandalism, arson, etc. would still be punishable by law.
Libertarians are tolerant and sensible.
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Along with anarchism, one of two ideologies that teenagers adopt in high school before growing older and smarter.
Matt just checked out an Ayn Rand book from the library. I'm afraid he's beginning his libertarianism phase.
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An edgy conservative who likes to smoke weed.
Larry Libertarian believes that workers have no rights, taxation is theft, racial discrimination should be legal, regulations that protect clean air and water should be rolled back, and everything else that a Republican believes...but he wants to legalize the marijuana, so all the 20-somethings think he's cool.
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A libertarian is a person who thinks he is not the property of the state, like he is not a cow in a farm owned by a farmer. He thinks that the government should represent his interests and not repress him with rules against his wellness and steal money from his work like a PIMP.
He believes that a contract is only valid when people who sign it agree with the terms, which is not the case of most decisions of the government pushed on people against their will. He realises that all the land is owned by different states/gangs who bully people in different ways, and so there is no free land on the planet where you can stay by yourself and mind your own business without having to pay something to someone, and he thinks that's SLAVERY.
He's disgusted by the idea of being stuck in an office from 9 to 5 and the need to ask permission to go to the doctor or take care of a kid, he thinks it's like JAIL.
What he wants it's to be FREE, from any kind of self proclaimed authority because he is an adult, a free person who is responsible for his actions and choices and can make his own decisions.
This makes people who are not libertarian voluntary slaves, prisoners and kids, wanting to be assisted by an authority. They are willing to be taxed on their labour by people who are not taxed on their capital, who make them suffer in poverty living of what they produce, like farm ANIMALS.
And of course the system makes you think that being libertarian can only create chaos... WAKE UP PEOPLE!
He's a libertarian, he won't do anything against his will because he's a free person, not a slave, not a prisoner, not a kid.
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