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Do You Know The Dark Origins Of The Libertarian Party?? (Original Post)
ErikJ
Aug 2016
OP
It would be more productive to concentrate on Don the Con and the Rethugs. Just sayin...
63splitwindow
Aug 2016
#1
A better subject head would be - dark origins of Ayn Rand philosophy - of which many repubs like
Kashkakat v.2.0
Aug 2016
#4
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)1. It would be more productive to concentrate on Don the Con and the Rethugs. Just sayin...
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)2. I think you're missing the point. Did you watch the entire segment?
The Media does not confront these individuals on the issues because it's to THEIR benefit to keep people stupid. Anderson Cooper should have confronted Gary Johnson and Bill Weld on the Libertarian platform. It is the same with the Republicans. We know where Trump stands. The Libertarians are just as bad.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)4. A better subject head would be - dark origins of Ayn Rand philosophy - of which many repubs like
Paul Ryan are adherents..... not only libertarians.
Thom Hartmann did a good job the other day telling the story - its quite chilling and Rand actually wrote admiringly of this brutal murderer and corpse desecrator.
certainot
(9,090 posts)3. libertarian party is an excuse for lazy
twits
Nitram
(22,803 posts)5. Libertarians are conservatives who smoke dope.
certainot
(9,090 posts)6. and some of them think sex is okay
Nitram
(22,803 posts)7. Libertarianism has been around for centuries.
The term includes socialist, capitalist, pacifist and other variations. I'm not a libertarian, but I object to reducing the entire concept to Ayn Randism.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)8. +1.