individualism, personal liberty, and true freedom of religion....just some of the reasons libertarianism is a rising party that I firmly support with everything in my power. In fact, the only thing modern libertarians support that I don't is decreasing the military budget. Libertarianism is the modern version of something called classic liberalism. Classic liberalism should not be confused with today's version of liberalism known as modern liberalism. Classic liberalism is the grand father of all free modern western political parties and movement's. The Greeks, Chinese, and a few Jewish sects are often credited with the creation of the philosophy of democracy which is basically classic liberalism. Classic liberalism died out when the American nd British Whig parties died in the 1800s. It was replaced with political movements who all put lesser value on individualism and more value on the entire. The individualism philosophy was then replaced by Communist, Ultra Conservative, and ultra Socialist leaning ideas or directly from them. However, when Individualism came back into play as a major movement in the 1960s...it has been growing ever since in the form of the libertarian party.


Both liberals and conservatives claim to value individualism and personal freedom yet that is simply not true. Conservatives claim to value Individualism and personal freedom yet they denie gay marriages because it's against what they believe. Individualism ( if you don't know ) is a philosophy that basically puts value on being unique and personal freedom is a philosophy that says people should have the freedom to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't physically or in a few cases mentally hurt people and you must respect another person's right to do so. Republicans break a clear part of personal freedom by denieing gays there right to " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness " which clearly includes marriage. Legalizing marijuana is another issue republicans get wrong. People have the right to consume whatever they want as long as it doesn't harm others. Now we have been fed propaganda from conservatives that drug users are terrible crime committing people when that is simply not true. Science shows that high people commit just as many crimes as regular people. Democrats are just as bad. They claim to support personal freedom yet, they actively try to take away a man's constitutional right to bare arms. Now, of course they say it's simply ' back ground checks " but that's simply not true. We all know that democrats would love to turn America into an EU style system in north America which includes outlawing guns or at least making it extremely hard to own one. This is a clear violation of the constitution. However, even though the constitution clearly supports gun rights, it usually centers more around a militia then private ownership. It's simply a matter of debate but in the end the constitution in my opinion clearly supports gun rights and the NRA is extremely constitutional. Democrats also violate the constitution by openly supporting abortion. Now, abortion would be very lawful and legal in the eyes of personal freedom because technically it is the women's body and she has the right to control it. However, abortion is terminating another human being therefore it is definitely harming another human being. Life begins at conception....a very popular talking point for republicans but they never back that up with scientific proof. Life begins at conception because conception is when the DNA chain forms. The DNA chain formation is the start of life therefore unless you have sex then immediately terminate the DNA chain you don't even know exists are not..must unlawful.


Teaching evolution or Christianity is technically unconstitutional as well because it's the government officially recognizing a belief system. I don't give a crap about your supposed proof for either of these beliefs because it doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, it matters that not everyone will always agree with you and many religious and non religious dictatorships started when the government officially recognized a belief system. Thus, the founding fathers put a safe guard on this by saying the government will never officially recognise any religion. Since schools are usually run by the state and federal governments, it's completely unlawful to teach any belief system or religion in the class room. Teaching a fair view of all major belief systems when needed such as in science is probably the most constitutional friendly option that or not teaching it at all and allowing kids to be influenced on by the culture.



In the end, most people support individualism and personal freedom only when it affects themselves but when it comes to other people all of a sudden they are ' offended ' and the other person's rights are null and void while there own is still valid.


Im not purely anti conservative or democratic. I just like pointing out the hypocrisy in both parties

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Classic Liberalism sounds right to me...
optimistic nihilism with a mix of existentialism, you choose the path. you cant be criticized for what you do, yet you will be criticized b/c people have the option to do so. there is no morality, right/wrong, yet you should strive to be "good".

I never knew you came on forums XD

i come everywhere

Lol

I like Libertarianism

Register for the party :) I'm not old enough myself but God Willing I will someday

The easiest way to some up the libertarian philosophy is " live and let live "

Dafuq is this?

I support increasing certain privileges for citizens who fill a criteria, but outright liberalism leads to anarchy.

What the fuck is wrong with Anarchy you fag

sincerly:

An Anarcho-Syndicalist

Donald Trump is a libertarian or a retardalien?
:)

It's nice and all that but who builds the roads?

Me I will build the roads !

In fact, the only thing modern libertarians support that I don't is decreasing the military budget.

WHY?

Bc, Ox, some people just want those big long hard nukes with their giant payloads.

+1 Ox

Congrats, Benjie, on making a pointless post when your perfectly capable of saying something intelligent.

Jews are too conservative and authoritarian to create democracy.

LOL. 61% of Jews are members of the Democratic Party. Only 31% are Republicans and many of those are centrist or right-of-center eastern establishment Republicans. If you are referring to Jews in Israel this is again a not completely truthful statement. Sure you have far right parties like Shas, Likud, and The Jewish Home. But most people know that the electorate leans left. Also "Conservatism" in the Jewish sense is different than in other contexts. Most Jews support socially liberal policies such as gay marriage, abortion, and the welfare state.


Wolf I am a big supporter of Libertarianism. If I quite the Republican party I'll head to the Libertarians or Constitutionalist Party. What do you think of Ron Paul by the way...arguably the most important Libertarian in the last 2 decades.

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Jews have no real politics... you have two options:

1- Murder the Palestinians outright
2- Torture the Palestinians to death

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No that's just wrong. I'm sorry. That's not true.