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Zucas on 21 May 2010
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badgenome said:
Zucas said:
badgenome said:
Zucas said:

Use my beliefs like an extra ace up the sleeve

Oh man, that's insidious stuff. Can you imagine what would happen if the tea party assimilated that 0.5% of the electorate comprised by libertarians? They'd be unstoppable!

It's pretty strange that you, as a libertarian, have infinitely more vitriol for people who have some libertarianish values than you do for people who haven't a libertarian bone in their bodies. Even stranger when the latter control all the levers of power and the former control none.

 

But yea it is possible I could hate someone who could be a diehard libertarian if I think they are nothing more than a fake and a liar.  I have more respect for someone who is a diehard socialist than a two-faced libertarian.  At least one of them has respect for themselves.  Which is why I don't like the tea party people because personally I don't think they take my political ideologies all that serious.

 

 

 

I don't see how you can think that they're trying to put one over on anybody. For one thing, I've never seen them claim to be libertarians (though I have seen a lot of libertarians who have varying degrees of enthusiasm for the tea party). It actually seems like you should have a fair amount in common with them politically, but you'd rather take potshots at them because they're so decidedly uncool.

Well I'm sorry for not fitting a mold that you have stereotyped.  I'll work on that next time.  No most of them don't claim to be libertarians though, because I doubt they know what the word means.  Not enough of a mainstream media term for them to fully be aware of. 

And once again it is just my opinion of them and probably just a thing I use against them that a lot of fans of unpopular bands use against new fans that come in once they are popular.  But I also think those tea party guys are just like the ones who started to hate Bush but were on the other side of things.  People always use "anti-government" as a way to mask I don't like the people in it.