frankj1 wrote:another one caught by the word Socialism in the original Nazi name.
You are simply incorrect about Nazi communism. Ask Stalin and his friends
Makes the rest worthless.
You pretend to dislike the right to appear fair, but have yet to address the moves of Trump to consolidate power.
The libertarians I know, along with dozens of former GOP US Attorneys and others criticize The Donald as "a threat to the rule of law..." through maneuvers like manipulating the Justice Dept to serve his interests and to punish those who would speak their opinions of it...
Far right in rational clothing.
So, where in the world would you be happy to live?
Frank, now be honest...you didn't read or listen to David Gordon's words did you?
We don't travel in the same circles Frank, so you don't know about libertarian criticisms about Trump or the more nefarious factions of the right that I've seen or been part of. I don't know who those libertarians are that you know or what case they are exactly trying to make about Trump but consolidating power in a uber-nationalist government has been going on in spurts most notably since the birth of the Republican Party and the Civil War. The Republican Party is the original big government party that still exists today, the descendant of the Hamiltonian nationalists and which arose from the ruins of the American Whig Party. Centralization of power is nothing new with Trump or the Republican party as a whole. Of course there have been dissenters to the drive for federal consolidated power within the party all along, those who wanted to actually reform the party to match it's rhetoric of smaller government, fiscal responsibility and defending the Constitution. We would call them the traditional conservatives, the old right, not the phoney ones that pass themselves off as conservatives today, especially the worst of the lot, the neoconservatives. Who could honestly say that the Republican Party has been diligent in achieving their oft cited goals represented by the rhetoric I mentioned? A fool, an insane person maybe?
The Democrats lost their Jeffersonian ways after the second Cleveland administration, with the progressive era when they started adopting Marxist ideas and have gotten progressively worse since then. Finding a Jeffersonian Democrat these days is about as easy as finding Sasquatch. Libertarians arose and evolved from the Jeffersonian tradition and carry on.
I have no love for either party but the left represented by the Democrats are clearly more evil and the greatest threat to liberty right now in the short run.