This is a great episode of Ron Paul's Liberty Report.
Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute and former chief-of-staff for Dr.Paul, is the guest.
Diest doesn't pull any punches in this episode, he admits that President Trump has taken some of the air out of the libertarian movement and that Trump is an empty vessel.
Quite correctly, Diest also points out that the battle to advance liberty is an intellectual battle.
-Robert Wenzel
The movement is dead because libertarians don't have the courage to lead.
ReplyDeleteWhat does that even mean?
DeleteIndeed, what DOES that mean? I look at it the other way, namely, statists don't have the courage to live under self-rule.
Delete“The courage to lead” usually refers to political leadership in today’s world.
DeleteAnd in this you are right. A lot of us Libertarians don’t want any leadership in the political realm. A lot of us don’t want nor do we need “leaders”. We want to be left to our own devises and be left alone. And in kind, we gladly leave others alone, as we don’t think we have any business “leading” (aka dictating) other peoples lives.
I think most Libertarians are too cowardly to do anything. Who ever promotes the idea of a exclusive socially conservative private covenant neighborhood? Further, since no one ever does anything about leftist government school indoctrination, young people have nothing to abandon. How can they abandon something they've never heard?
DeleteI think what it means is that unless libertarians are able to infiltrate the mainstream narrative, as Dr. Paul was able to do, there is nobody to 'lead' the platform. The average Joe is never going to find Wenzel, Block, or anybody else for that matter without exposure. Without another Dr. Paul emerging, its a rudder-less movement.
DeleteBut letting in more turd world immigrants will lead to a more libertarian society, right? Or even whites with a leftist bent? This is where you libertardians are retards.
ReplyDeleteYou are worse than my shit.
DeleteYour ignorance Donxon is amazing:
Deletehttps://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/03/electing-new-people.html?showComment=1521632485476#c8212325844342215733
"Nothing has changed except a) the source nations, and b) the numbers. Previous generations of immigrants all voted Democrat too and continue to do so today. Irish, Italians, Jews, they all voted for more government handouts and in the interests of their own people at the expense of the native stock. Now the Chinese, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Somalis are doing the same thing, it's just that there are more of them, they look more obviously different, and their values and traditions are even more opposed to American values and traditions."
Re: He-Who-Fantasizes-About-White-European-Males,
Delete--- Or even whites with a leftist bent? ---
What? Did you and White European males who you so fancy have a lovers' quarrel?
"Your ignorance Donxon is amazing"- Lame Manager
DeleteWhat is it they say about people in glass houses?
Sounds like too many people who are Libertarians are stuck in the rut that political means are the only means to gain success.
ReplyDeleteHowz that been working for us? I believe until we say SCREW the political process and quit wasting our time and resources on the State’s game, we will continue to be where we are.
This is what Libertarians fear. Chucking the system and actually Hating the State.
We don’t Hate the State. We just dislike it.
Millennials abandoning liberty? What a joke! You gotta have something before you can abandon it.
ReplyDelete"We castrate, then bid the geldings 'be fruitful!'"
- C.S.M.F Lewis
Is there an actual statistic, or is this just the good old-fashioned bitchy old man, complaining about "kids these days...." and " in my day..."
ReplyDeleteGet off my lawn
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