The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

[vt]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc9a31b8-7928-11e3-b381-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2qI0FM

[NCR85]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

It's behind a paywall.

[vt]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

I believe you can sign up for free. You're just limited on the amount of articles

[cbr]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

the problem with rising libertarian tides is that there is no electoral vehicle for their views, and frankly their numbers can never reach critical mass due to entitlement/citizenship demographics.

[vt]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

If a Perot like figure, without the weirdness, comes along and captures the Independent feelings of the plurality that identify that way, they won't need a majority; they just need to have the other two parties split the votes of the two respective wings. 35% of the vote could win not only for President but for Senate and House.

The American people are mad as hell and looking for a way to express themselves. With Obamacare teetering and no job growth anything can happen.

A coalition could be formed on economic issues with independents and Republicans having the ability to support the egenda of a fiscal conservative Independent President. The liberal social issues could be addressed later; the economy will rule first.

[santafe2]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

I believe you can sign up for free. You're just limited on the amount of articles

I'd like to read it vt but a libertarian never let's a corporate entity force them to sign-up so they can read an article...

[vinoveri]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

yup, the tide is surely rising and pretty soon it'll be over their heads

[gwynedd1]

Re: The Tide Is Rising For America's Libertarians

If a Perot like figure, without the weirdness, comes along and captures the Independent feelings of the plurality that identify that way, they won't need a majority; they just need to have the other two parties split the votes of the two respective wings. 35% of the vote could win not only for President but for Senate and House.

The American people are mad as hell and looking for a way to express themselves. With Obamacare teetering and no job growth anything can happen.

A coalition could be formed on economic issues with independents and Republicans having the ability to support the egenda of a fiscal conservative Independent President. The liberal social issues could be addressed later; the economy will rule first.

Ross Perot was da guberment contractor, founder of EDS, which is hardly the mark of a populist or a libertarian.

Libertarians suffer from being hopelessly naive, typically isolating themselves to economic arguments in the bailiwick of the modern era while romanticizing a past that never existed. They would do far better first with Locke, Hobbs , Montesquieu, de Tocqueville to help them conceptualize what a state actually is before trying to define "economics" which is in it of itself is a fraudulent term in the macroeconomic sense. Home economics is a legitimate concept whereas "political economy" is the honest one at the state level.

As a self identified libertarian, I can attest that few under that label are in any condition to do anything. About the only thing I can hope for is the end of the financial civil war between the zombified forces of democracy now losing on every front to the oligarchy. The only hope is to see it convert to something that was historically an aristocracy( an oligarchy no longer at war with the populist movements).