Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet?
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I would suggest that there are different types of liberatarians (though I am neither): critical libertarians and knee-jerk libertarians. If one eliminated all the knee-jerk libertarians, I suspect that the number of libertarians would diminish substantially.
I am not convinced that any one social construction, considered critically, is more "aspie." However, a knee-jerk libertarianism might be appealing to some aspies for a variety of reasons, including a presumed lack of empathy (theory of mind).
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I suppose depending on the definitions, I would argue that the number of any people in any political orientation would decrease if the knee-jerk members decreased.
I doubt that is necessarily it. There is a small number of conservatives within Aspie circles and a larger number of libertarians, more of the phenomena would likely be explained by aspies tending to be socially liberal than their tendency to be less empathetic as this group is likely not much worse than knee jerk conservatives.
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Yes, but among aspies, I suspect that the most attractive knee-jerk position may be libertarianism. The word "liberal" is used to too many different ways. Some of them (like economic liberalism) are what most people would think of as conservatism (classical liberalism).
Well, short of conducting a social survey, there is no way to know for sure. However, I have never come across, on any other message board, the same numbers of libertarians I have seen on Wrong Planet and other aspie-focused forums.
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lol. I guess marriage is a kind of socialism.
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yeah, cause anyone who has a different view than you obviously doesn't pay taxes.
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i live in los angeles, ca. i get taxes way more than you do.
short of us both posting nearly everything about our lives, you are just guessing who's tax rate is higher and who pays more overall taxes and who gets what in return for paying.
Somebody could be happy as hell paying 40% income tax and $10,000 a year property tax if they had a 6 figure do next to nothing cake government job 35 hours a week while living in a house they got from their grandparents. They would think the system is wonderfull.
i don't think the system is wonderful and i think there's a lot of crap to cut down on. just, i most likely differ from you in which areas i think need to be cut first.
that and i don't just play the partisan song and dance like you seem to do.
edit: and i make nowhere near six figures.
so income taxes aren't much of an issue than are they ?
just because I think the dems are worse than the republicans doesn't mean I support the republicans. As it stands right now I hope Obama gets elected and really isn't what he has been forced to be to get where he is. He has had no choice but to be a good team player and could be a great president
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As one working man put it, he didn't leave the democrat party, they left him.
We have had a country for a few decades now that has catered to the yuppie baby boomers and screwed the blue collar working class. Obama might actually get the BITTER fact in rural america is no different than the BITTER fact in the inner city. We have had the Biff & Muffy society for decades and most of america has been left out of the warm & fuzzy life in bedroom communities where life is all about their snot nose children who must get a college degree so they don't end up like THOSE working class people Biff & Muffy have exploited and sold out to get their 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath yuppie castle away from THOSE people, the flithy dirty working class lowlifes.
The news media goes on and on about religion & abortion as top issues in election. More likely is people are voting their wallets and for rural people they are being cleaned out to support the cities and know it. It's nothing more than a transfer of wealth from the blue collar working class outside the major cities to the low income servants of Biff & Muffy so they don't have to pay the people who clean their toilets,cook their food and in general wait on them hand and foot for chump change, bubba is fully awhere of what is going on and the news media won't dare touch the subject of the raping of the rural population and exploitation of the low income urban populations so Biff & Muffy can live the good life.
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Very true. Well, most political message boards I've seen are divided between libertarians and left-wingers. I really can't say though, I do think that WP has been more left wing in the past.
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'Are you a Socialist?'
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Seeking government aid is not inconsistent with all schools of libertarianism, i.e., left libertarianism.
I am using "libertarian" in the broad sense of word. For instance, I would include, not only Ron Paul, but also Ralph Nader.
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Oh, but libertarians are a different story. They're deluded, but they have good intentions. I think. Just try to remember the leftist roots of your philosophy. Libertarianism is rooted deeply in liberal philosophy, and it always has been. I don't know why many people seem to think it's "right-winged." They're outright wrong, really. Even Adam Smith, the original libertarian, was a liberal philosopher, and most people either don't know or won't tell you that he was one of the earliest advocates of progressive taxation. Even today, his views would be seen as very liberal.
Of course you don't believe it. You're historically illiterate. It's easy to argue from a position of ignorance, you know. It's how Creationists can convince so many people of their stupid rubbish. They aren't constrained by facts, so they're free to make the truth up as they go along. Before you make another post, I suggest you do some actual reading on history. Actually check out a few books from a library, and act like you're really serious about enlightening yourself before you come back on here to spout your ill-researched opinions. If you don't, count on this: you WILL be ridiculed.
Right, I would only include Ron Paul as left-libertarianism is along the same lines as most anarchism and I don't see Ralph Nader advancing such a view very much, but perhaps I am not very familiar with his work.
Well, depending on your views of them. I agree that the idea was very leftist for the time, however, the emphasis on states rights, a non-interventionist foreign policy(not always consistently followed), and such were somewhat libertarian. That is sort of true about the right wing at the time, however, it can't be ignored the powerful religious influences in the colonies given the original desire of Massachusetts being somewhat theocratic. I say that the issue of right or left sort of depends on the founder, and things like that, but to label the right as wrong historically without distinguishing between British Tories and modern American conservatives is an issue from my view.
Hmm..., the original libertarian isn't John Locke who justified property and whose ideas include the protection of property? Frankly, I would argue that libertarianism and leftism are 2 separate philosophies that have some common roots in the Enlightenment and some figures held in common, but are ultimately separate. You know, the libertarian will assert Bastiat and Locke, and the leftist will look more towards Rousseau and John Stuart Mill, Mill may be influential to libertarians as well as leftists, but he is more of a leftist forefather than a libertarian. You are right, Adam Smith was an early proponent of progressive taxation, the reason why he is a libertarian forefather is simply because he argued for self-correcting markets, frankly, the libertarian ideology stems more from other figures who more rigorously developed the notion of the sovereign individual.
I don't see his statement as being *that* bad. I mean, I would see the thrashing being more necessary if he said that the US were a Christian nation, but to defend the conservative/libertarian grouping for the founding fathers does not seem wrong, especially given that between the Hamiltonians and the Jeffersonians, the former were rather conservative, and the latter were rather libertarian with neither really being "left" as we would typically understand it.
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We aren't liberal to the idea of rights. We are libertarian to the idea of rights. If we were liberal then we'd have a lot more social insurance. Frankly, libertarians and leftists are both socially liberal and both have socially liberal aspects of their conceptions of rights, however, the former sees economic rights from an individualist standpoint and the latter sees them from a more communal standpoint and our system does hold to both, but compared to the rest of the world it is more libertarian and compared to the history of ideas it seems more libertarian.