Populism not Libertarianism

Populism’s chief motto: “Equal rights for all; special rights for no one.”

This means you are only free to enjoy such “liberties” as you are willing to allow all other citizens to enjoy and you are NOT free to enjoy those “liberties” that you are NOT willing to allow other citizens to enjoy. The “Golden Rule”, remember?

It’s none of my business who other people sleep with as long as they are consenting adults. I want the right to choose whom I will sleep with and/or marry so I want everyone else to have the same right of choice.
If we are not willing to allow gays to marry, then what right do we have to protest if someone comes along saying that heterosexuals don’t have the right to marry?

Special interest groups! What is that? What makes their interests special? I’m for common interests – the interests/concerns we have in common with everyone else.

If you have a special interest, tell me what’s in it for me. How is it in my interest to give you a tax cut, tax break, grant or loan? If you can show me that your special interest “promotes the general welfare” then we have a common interest in doing it, otherwise go back to the end of the line. You’ve got no right to feed at the public trough unless it is in the public’s interest that you do so.

Simple rules for governing can help solve complicated problems/issues IF we keep them in mind and let them guide but not dictate our decision-making.

It basically is a way of denying the existence of society.

to accurately describe that abomination. Your description is clear and succinct.

Are there right-wing and left-wing populists, just like Libertarians?

Long was the same. Bits and pieces could be seen in both but they seem to be jingoists to me.

reasonable to make you almost forget that they are lead by fuckers like the Pauls. Any philosophy that can accomodate and lionize them is a piece of crap to me.

You have people like Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs who call themselves populists, but really all they ever do is play to the emotional side of their arguments and try to pass it off as reason. They are really demagogues, but since that term is generally used in the perjorative, they choose the label of populist instead. Regardless of what they call themselves, propaganda and prejudice disguised as nationalism are their main rhetorical tools.