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re: Colbert talks about match fixing with guest Alexi Lalas
Posted on 2/21/13 at 6:55 pm to cwil177
Posted on 2/21/13 at 6:55 pm to cwil177
I don't really like going into politics (especially on a message board!) but yalls beliefs seem to have a lot in common with libertarianism.
Libertarians are essentially for small government and tend to weigh economic issues as the governments main purpose. This means economically (the key issue for me as well) that the scope of government should be limited and should provide basic services and minimal regulation of markets and collect taxes to pay for those services. On the social issue side, government essentially should not have a role in regulating social issues and thusly they tend to have more in common with the left on social issues, although the reasoning is a bit different at times. Obviously that is a very simplified explanation, but if the above at all describes your personal political beliefs I would reccomend doing a bit of research into it.
Libertarians in general tend to side with the right, Ron and Rand Paul are essentially libertarian in their beliefs, although they both represent the republic party in congress.
Libertarians are essentially for small government and tend to weigh economic issues as the governments main purpose. This means economically (the key issue for me as well) that the scope of government should be limited and should provide basic services and minimal regulation of markets and collect taxes to pay for those services. On the social issue side, government essentially should not have a role in regulating social issues and thusly they tend to have more in common with the left on social issues, although the reasoning is a bit different at times. Obviously that is a very simplified explanation, but if the above at all describes your personal political beliefs I would reccomend doing a bit of research into it.
Libertarians in general tend to side with the right, Ron and Rand Paul are essentially libertarian in their beliefs, although they both represent the republic party in congress.
This post was edited on 2/21/13 at 6:58 pm
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Posted on 2/21/13 at 9:42 pm to BobLoblaw
The idea of a libertarian society is great on paper. I agree with many of the social tenants of the Libertarian party. Having unlimited freedom sounds wonderful, but I feel as though human history has proven that we can't handle unlimited liberties.
It's like the polar opposite of communism in terms of its philosophy on governance, but similar in its very overly idealistic view of human nature.
The fundamental Enlightenment idea of government stems from the fact that we give up some of our liberties in return for protection in self-government. Some libertarians believe that the only protection the government should give to its is to defend our states' borders.
There's way too much stock put in protecting personal property in libertarian doctrines, and also way too much Social Darwinism.
It's like the polar opposite of communism in terms of its philosophy on governance, but similar in its very overly idealistic view of human nature.
The fundamental Enlightenment idea of government stems from the fact that we give up some of our liberties in return for protection in self-government. Some libertarians believe that the only protection the government should give to its is to defend our states' borders.
There's way too much stock put in protecting personal property in libertarian doctrines, and also way too much Social Darwinism.
Posted on 2/22/13 at 12:09 am to BobLoblaw
I've never really assigned myself a label, but if I had to I know I would probably be closer to libertarian than anything else. I wish we didn't have a two party system.
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