Faux News Fails again by Fox journalist Kevin McCullough

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HappySqurriel said:

Kasz216 said:

You know, to be fair, Libretarians somehow always are overrepresented their, and in other polls.  Haha reminds me of the Republican primary debates where they had to turn it off the polls because Ron Paul was winning by like 60% and Chris Matthews was all "No he fucking didn't!  He's not going to win! Shut up!"  Which since it's Chris Matthews, that may of been an actual quote.

I guess If votes were weighted by enthusiasm libretarians would win every time.  Guess it's an easy political theory to be enthusasitc about though since it's pretty much the only one that has almost zero contradictions.

I have noticed quite often that the most informed people in most political discussions tend to be libertarians, and I have wondered whether libertarians tend to put in the effort to inform themselves or if being informed is more likely to make someone a libertarian.

Unfortunately, the uninformed masses out number those that bother to inform themselves; and most elections (regardless of whether it is a primary or a general election) tend to become popularity contests.

I'd say the reason Libertarians tend to be more informed is that its not a de-facto political stance held by most people. You aren't born (politically speaking) a libertarian. It requires an informed judgement to break from the left/right slant, and choose the mixture of socially-moderate to left policies, with the financially-right/extremist policies.

Essentially, you have to know what you believe to shun the typical ideologies.