(July 18, 2011 at 3:14 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: The issue with Libertarians in the US is their tepid if not accepting support of extreme far right social views.
Were they at least moderates when it comes to the actions of their party, I would call myself one.
However, the differences between ideological purity, as Void has laid out of what it should be, and the actual implementation keeps me firmly among the blue dog democrats.
Can you try and make a distinction between Libertarians the party and libertarians the political philosophy? I don't believe the party are at all accepting of social conservatism, it would mostly be the libertarian-leaning republicans who are involved in the GOP who are willing to compromise but It seems to me that they are not so much accepting of their social views as they are aware that they will be more easily able to make libertarians of conservatives than liberals - I would agree with that general principle (which is the core idea behind their campaign in the republican party), persuading someone who believes in free markets and individual responsibility that they have no business telling another person what to do with their personal life is MUCH easier than convincing someone who has a vision and agenda for an entire society that they have no business legislating their values and bringing about their personal utopia.
The legalisation of Gay Marriage is touted as an example of the liberalisation of the GOP by some acquaintances of mine who are members of the Libertarian party and seeing as the lawmakers themselves have claimed they lean libertarian I would say there is pretty good reason to assume that it is a successful campaign - One friend even went as far as to say that the a successful liberalisation of the republican party achieved by libertarians would be one of the biggest victories for social equality since Luther King, I don't know enough about it to accept his claim at face value though.
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