badgenome said:
They do have some common short term goals, but they aren't really so many and once those are accomplished, then what? I don't see how such a thing could ever survive in the long run. The left's belief in positive rights will always doom such an alliance. You will sooner get the right to give up its silly moralism than you will get the left to give its up, because the right isn't really defined by theirs in the way that the left is. All Nader can say about this critical difference is, "Who cares if they quote Ayn Rand as long as they don't ask you to compromise on your principles?" Which may be a great response to the left winger who finds libertarian selfishness distasteful, but it doesn't address the problem at all. Naturally, progressives are going to be much less bothered by the fact that libertarians want to be left alone than libertarians are by the fact that progressives have all kinds of marvelous designs in mind for them and their property. |
In politics, the short term IS long term.
It would take them a good long while to get far enough to accomplish their common short term goals. After that... a dissolution is sure to happen, but at that point the current system would be destablized already... and you'd hope you can fashion yourself a more influential position on your own.
