Derby Chang wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: >> And to William - I'd probably be a Republican if I was an American, it's >> a more comfortable party to a small-l libertarian like me. >> >> -Adam >> > > Republican, libertarian? Really > > (OK, I'm Australian, but I could raise the same eyebrow about the > Liberal Party of Australia, a part of the "coalition of the willing") > > http://www.jonathangullible.com/mmedia/PhilosophyOfLiberty-english_music.swf > > "You have the right to seek leaders for yourself, but you do not have > the right to impose rulers on others" > > D >
The Republican's are less wedded to the Big Government ideal. I'm very not fond of their tendency to try and regulate morality via social practices, but I'm even less fond of the Democrats tendency to look at everybody as having group-based identities rather than individual identities and their unfortunate tendency to legislate morality via economic practices. As it goes, here in Canada I tend to flip-flop between the Conservative Party (Good on economics and OK on small government, bad on social issues) and the NDP (good on social issues, bad on economics. At least they will use the money they take from me to benefit the poor, while the Liberals prefer to benefit only their cronies) It doesn't help that the US Libertarian Party (the obvious home for a libertarian) is made up primarily of outright kooks with no connection to reality. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
