FuzzNJ wrote:Being cheeky, but there is truth to it. During GW's administration there were a whole lot of republicans who started calling themselves big 'L' libertarian, but still want government to stop things they don't like, ie homosexual marriage, drug control etc, as shown here with Z. That can't be in any way large L Libertarian.
Now small L libertarian is a different issue. There are many issues where I am libertarian and they usually fall into the don't tell me what to do unless I'm hurting someone else, but not anti-government because it's needed for a civil society. I wouldn't claim to be Libertarian because of it and Z and people like Z should be called out for calling himself Libertarian when clearly he is not. He's a normal conservative, saying he dislikes government envolvement in our lives, unless it's used to enforce his morality.
You're right about that. A lot of "Libertarians" will vote Republican because they somehow think it's the lesser of 2 evils or something. But the truth is, the Republican party really can't call themselves "the party of small government" anymore with a straight face. They are only the party of small government when it comes to giving corporations whatever the hell they want. When it comes to liberty/equality/privacy, they are the party of all-powerful moral authority government.
But on the other side, Democrats believe that their party represents "the little guy" when nothing could be further from the truth. The bailouts, the Patriot Act, the Tobacco Control Act, and the Food Safety and Modernization Act make it very clear whose side Democrats are on.
Lefties and righties are all for big government, as long as it's their kind of big government.
Signed,
A big L Libertarian