What strikes me as most interesting in all this isn't that leftists who call themselves "liberals" have correctly identified the true supporters of freedom as their worst enemies.
It's that in response, a great number of righties who simultaneously identify with "conservative" and "libertarian" are chiming in. You may remember that many of these folks, when they ran Congress and the office of the President of the United States, referred to libertarians somewhat correctly as "liberals," though they didn't quite mean it in the same way that we would. They certainly didn't want to hear about individual rights as they pushed their "war on terror."
The longer I continue to identify as "principled libertarian," "amateur agorist," or "anarchist," the more political games such as these disgust me. Still, when I identify right-wingers who may be "fellow travelers," I continue to try to nudge them "further to the right" in their conceptual view of the world. Likewise, when I identify left-wingers who may be "fellow travelers," I continue to try to nudge them "further to the left" in their conceptual view. At the same time, I try to point to their "extreme" counterparts as not really so "extreme" once you understand the principles behind the issues in which they're consistent with liberty.
The Free Talk Live BBS
Author
Topic: Free State Project (Read 4270 times)