Libertarianism?

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Kasz216 said:

damkira said:
Libertarianism seems to be trendy these days because people won't admit to being a Republican.

 I thought libertarianism was left wing do to libertarains being all about pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and the like?  

I've ben called one before, mostly because I think most of the departments of the US government at best don't do anything and at worse actually screw things up more.

Like the department of edcuation... which seems to do nothing except come up with ways to deny schools money since they don't make any real decisions outside of blackmailing states.

So what am I if I think the National government wastes a lot of money on departments that aren't necessary.  Don't care if gay people get married, think it's a really good idea for the government to not spend more money then it takes in (Outside states of emergency) and think it'd be great if we had a basic national healtcare plan but also allowed for the running of private healthcare for those who could afford it?

What are you? Screwed, that's what.

But seriously, the limited universal health care would put serious bad blood between you and any libertarian group I've ever heard of, even though the rest seems fairly agreeable to them. I'd guess you and rocketpig would get along pretty well. If you and he and others got together maybe you could pull the Libertarian Party back from the brink and into a party I could respect. I'd never join you guys, but we'd have some goals in common.

damkira is of course referring to the cozy relationship that somehow exists between libertarians and right-wing Republicans die to their shared free-market/deregulation/etc. stances despite the fundamentalists' obvious goals in contrast with libertarians' very liberal stance on civil liberties. You'd think they'd get on with Democrats just as well as Republicans, for basically the opposite reason (strong on civil liberties but weak on free market), but it never seems to work out that way, from what I've heard at least.