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    United States Why Do Libertarians Always Lose?

    I'm not a student of Objectivism and in fact count myself an opponent and critic of it (since it's an inherently Atheistic philosophy, as the most detailed description of what I am is probably something like "Conservative Nationalistic Evangelical Christian"), and will admit to not having played...
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    United States Why Do Libertarians Always Lose?

    Actually, no, it really isn't. Speaking as someone who grew up deep within the very right wing Evangelical movement of the 1980s and 90s, what is portrayed in "A Handmaiden's Tale" in no way, shape, or form actually fits with the philosophy or ideals of that movement. Ironically, the society...
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    United States Why Do Libertarians Always Lose?

    How do you define safety? Because based on criminal and violent crime statistics, we're at a fifty year or longer low. Based on geopolitical circumstances, there's no real threat of full scale war with a peer power like there was in the 1950s... and the military deployments that the US is...
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    United States Why Do Libertarians Always Lose?

    What areas do Libertarians crow about? Pot legalization? That's hardly truly a settled issue, and while it's made some gains in the last decade, it's always been a weird one in that it's not an area that Social Conservatives really care about, as they don't see the issue as fundamentally all...
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    United States Why Do Libertarians Always Lose?

    Libertarianism has been a core component of Conservatism since the late 1970s at the very least. To be frank, I find this modern crowing of Libertarians as somehow suddenly in ascendance and all important to be hilarious, because it shows how politically illiterate they actually ARE when it...
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    United States Why Do Libertarians Always Lose?

    You... you really believe that? You do realize that the social conservatives were a major force in pushing for criminal justice reform, right? Legal weed has never had a lot of opposition within social conservatives either, that was always more of a core standard of the "tough on crime"...
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