Pilot's Political Orientation

"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
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I would hardly call Libertarians very conservative. While the free market
position could
lead one to think that ... the general approach of us being able to do our
own thing
as long as we don't interfere with others exercising that same freedom is
a long way
away from the ultra conservative approach. They want to control our every
action
and make our moral judgements for us.

Libertarians are as far to the right as it gets in America.

The Libertarians I know .. like me .. believe
in maximum liberty and minimum government to the extent that it's
practical. The problem
with the Republicrats is one wants to control our bank account and one
wants to
control our bedroom. With Libertarians .. at this point .. having little
practical political
power we're forced to choose between the extreme right or the extreme
left.

Libertarians are the extreme right.

"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
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Go he
http://www.libertarian.org/index2.html

The Hoover Institute is the leading libertarian think tank in America
and
it
is very conservative. In fact, outside the Hoover Institute
libertarians
have had little power in the US since FDR's Presidency began.
Libertarians
inside the Republican Party were responsible for the "balanced budget"
we
had a few years ago.

"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in
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So now you have 'conservatives' running around talking about
property
rights
and states' rights

Republicans have always supported States' rights, as that is the
basis
of a
republic.

(originally created to protect slavery)

Democrats wanted the 3/5 law and Republicans were not willing to go
to
war
over it and as long as libertarins could control the purse everyone
was
willing to leave things be for a while.

and protecting
large corporations while espousing populist principles.

The libertarian wing (once Federalists) of the Republican Party
insistthey
address the issues of fiscal responsibility and a small central
government,
but libertarians are out of favor now due to their isolationist
tendancies.

And you have the
'liberals' running around trying to limit free speech and press,
disarming
the public, and supporting the worst thugs and despots imaginable
in
other
countries in the name of 'diversity' and 'tolerance.'

Racism has always been the Democrats' product.

"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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Libertarians are as far to the right as it gets in America.


Kindly site some Libertarian positions that would indicate a far right
leaning. Live and let live is a far right position? Personal responsibility
is a far right position? A desire for a small government, minimal
interference in our lives and maximum liberty to live as we please
is a far right position? What am I missing here?

"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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Libertarians are as far to the right as it gets in America.


Kindly site some Libertarian positions that would indicate a far right
leaning.

Fiscal conservatism and a strong resistence to government redistribution are
two consrvative sentiments libertarians share.

Live and let live is a far right position? Personal responsibility
is a far right position?

You know the latter is extremism to the American left.

A desire for a small government, minimal
interference in our lives and maximum liberty to live as we please
is a far right position?

Yes. Ted Kennedy called constructionist Judicial nominees "Neanderthals".
Even wanting our republic back is extremism these days.

What am I missing here?

You are probably thinkin of left and right in European terms, where both
ends of the spectrum are socialist.

"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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Fiscal conservatism and a strong resistence to government redistribution
are
two consrvative sentiments libertarians share.

Absolutely. And that's a bad thing?


You are probably thinkin of left and right in European terms, where both
ends of the spectrum are socialist.


Well .. considering both ends of the spectrum wish to grow govt at an
astronomical rate .. you could be right. But I generally think in terms of
the left wishing to control my pocket book and the right wishing to control
my morals, violate my privacy, and control what goes on in my bedroom.

"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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Fiscal conservatism and a strong resistence to government redistribution
are
two consrvative sentiments libertarians share.

Absolutely. And that's a bad thing?

Not to me, but those policies are incompatable with socialism.