Not really on the bolded. Sure, if you draw a Venn Diagram then Libertarians and liberals agree on some social issues but typically for entirely different reasons and there's plenty of areas of disagreement as well. If anything when Libertarians and liberals do agree on social issues it's more accident of circumstance than anything and just proves the "broken clock theory" that even liberals can be correct twice a day.
https://anarchistnotebook.com/2015/...s-not-socially-liberal-fiscally-conservative/
I very much disagree with that article. For one, the author makes the point that: "Left liberal social values are not about people being free to do as they see fit in their personal lives, they are about forcefully disrupting the established social order and bringing chaos into the world." He defines those liberal values as "an inherently pro-State collection of policies not based in any particular coherent philosophy. They embrace and promote, a considerably different thing than to leave be or tolerate, feminism, homosexuality, transgenderism (a complete bullshit made up word), drugs, promiscuity, abortion, birth control, the abolition of the family, phony egalitarianism, racism against whites, sexism against men, and a myriad of other nihilistic nonsensical drivel. It opposes defensive force, freedom of association, and division of labor."
That is all true of a subset within liberalism, what I call the progressives or Social Justice Warriors. These people may be ascendent within liberalism today - they certainly SEEM to be ascendent, though perhaps due more to their shrill volume and high profile more than their numbers. But plenty of liberals today (including plenty of people who describe themselves as progressive) still believe in tolerance of those things, not necessarily promoting those things. That is, they don't care how you personally feel about gay or transgendered people, they only care that you treat them just like everyone else. Insisting that government protect a transgendered person's right to have an equal shot at renting an apartment or getting a job isn't necessarily promoting transgenders, it's just saying "play nice". Granted, Social Justice Warriors take that a LOT farther, into controlling and punishing thought and speech, but that is not necessarily liberalism as a whole. To identify liberalism as purely its worse element, what I term progressives, is to also lose what is good about liberalism, which gave us virtually everything we value about our secular society - including freedom of religion. That might be fine if conservatism was completely about conserving what we have (although it wrongly assumes that Western Liberalism has nothing more of value to contribute to our society) but there are major elements within the conservative movement who are just as authoritarian (and just as wrong, and just as vicious) as the Social Justice Warriors. An eagle with two wings can fly; an eagle with one wing can only flop around on the ground.
I disagree as well with the author's characterization of libertarianism as both pro-private property rights and self-ownership but anti-state. Without the state, private property rights and self-ownership are limited to what the individual can achieve with force of arms. Certainly libertarians are against the state intruding into areas where it is ill-suited and not required - in that sense, very much in favor of limiting the power and scope of the state - but to be anti-state is anarchism, not libertarianism.
I'm still waiting to be impressed
Hope you brought a good book.
Two of those articles are from back in March, and the third article is very vague and when they do have comments from anyone worth anything they all are dismissive of such a plot as basically pointless and will accomplish nothing of substance.
It's kind of interesting, but not something to be believed in. There are many on the right who don't want Trump to be the nominee. There also are many on the left who don't want Clinton to be the nominee.
I tend to agree, but never underestimate the Republicans' will and ability to assemble a circular firing squad.
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