From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 09:04:12 MST
In a message dated 1/24/2003 1:32:39 AM Central Standard Time,
spike66@attbi.com writes: Rightists have taken power in the US. What are
they called?
Damien,
I think you will find that what is happening in the US is more
accurately described as a swing into libertarianism (small L) As often as
the Libertarian Party is rejected at the polls they are having their ideas
and principles stolen to a fair thee well.
In a sense you are correct -- the arch conservatives in the US see
this movement as embracing conservative position. They would dearly love to
claim credit for the changes. To a degree they are even correct. But in the
end I hear the population becoming more libertarian.
Personally, I don't see the libertarian philosophy as being part of
the left wing - right wing mishmash. They are measured on a line having
totalitarians at one end and libertarians at the other. The libertarians, I
think correctly, identify both liberal and conservative as being very statist
and totalitarian. They declare a pox on both your houses.
I know this if we are to be Extropians and achieve those goals we will
do it as libertarians.
Ron h.
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