(December 16, 2014 at 10:58 am)Heywood Wrote:(December 16, 2014 at 8:39 am)Tonus Wrote: Libertarians in the USA strike me as an attempt by the GOP to expand without alienating an important core constituency (the religious right). They're really just Republicans who take a slightly more liberal stand on social issues... sometimes. I think that the GOP is understandably concerned with getting them back into the fold, since a split could be devastating for them in future elections. An honest-to-goodness libertarian party would be more liberal than conservative, IMO. Therefore, if the migration goes in that direction (ie, GOP towards libertarianism) it's probably better for the country in the long run.
Democrats in the USA strike me as an attempt by socialist to expand without alienating an important core constituency.......blah...blah...blah.
Libertarians are Libertarians and Republicans are Republicans and Democrats are Democrats. Trying to pigeon hole Libertarians as republicans is about as effective as trying to pigeon hole socialists as democrats.
Modern Democrats are more like moderate Republicans from the sixties and are not socialist.
