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“Libertarian beliefs have a strong following among Americans, but the Libertarian Party has never gained much prominence, possibly because the type of people who might support it have better things to do with their time than vote.”
Excellent Article from Doug Casey
Examines the Left vs Right Paradigm and the obscure forgotten third alternative that I suspect many of us here ascribe to.
Main Takeaway :
According to the current usage, liberals tend to allow social freedom, but restrict economic freedom, while conservatives tend to restrict social freedom and allow economic freedom. An authoritarian (they now sometimes class themselves as “middle-of-the-roaders”) is one who believes both types of freedom should be restricted.
But what do you call someone who believes in both types of freedom? Unfortunately, something without a name may get overlooked or, if the name is only known to a few, it may be ignored as unimportant. That may explain why so few people know they are libertarians.
Huge debt of gratitude to Ron Paul, who gave many of us our first in depth exposure to libertarian beliefs. As well as to Austrian economics, which enabled us to anticipate the GFC (Peter Schiff was especially vocal on that via CNBC) and to sidestep aspects of it. Also credit to Jim Grant, who provided the history lessons embedded in the Depression of 1920-21, providing a laboratory experiment validating its case. The coming global reset will return the world’s focus to Austrian theory. Excessive debt has consequences, eventually. The piper will be paid.
A libertarian country demands capable, independent and hardworking people. Where will we find them?