Tom Bridgeland was commenting at my cross post of Why Do Conservatives Misunderstand Libertarians and left a link to his look at the same subject from a more social view point. He looks at it from the viewpoint of cats and dogs. In his view we have two dog parties (and yes I do personally consider them both dogs) and a cat party. Which corresponds to my view of the political scene: Democrats, Christian Democrats, and libertarians.
His post is: Libertarians Fail Because They Don’t Understand Human Nature. Go read the whole thing. I left a couple of comments there (if they have posted) and also at my cross post of “Why Do Conservatives….” if you want to follow my thinking on the matter.
One other point – the dogs need a few cats in each election to win. The problem is that the dogs tend to think that if they have won the cats for an election that they own the cats. Forgetting that cats can’t be owned. Thus they double cross the cats and the cats defect. Cats are only loyal to results. Stupid dogs.
For those interested – the post of “Why Do Conservatives….” at Classical Values can be found here.
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8 responses to “A Social Look At Libertarianism”
Thanks for the extra link. Much appreciated! Neither of the political parties will give up the drug war, just too convenient, and lucrative. From local gov to the feds, there is money to be made. In my limited experience, the only sector of the government that supports relaxation of the drug was is the local beat cop. In relation to my article, there are no political points to be scored against the ‘enemy’ party, so the whole issue is ignored.
Tom,
Yes. The Drug War is one of our chief obsessions around here. The funny thing is that it looks like a coalition of Democrats and libertarians seems to be on the verge of beating it.
And I agree the parties view it quite differently from the way the voters view it.
Starting with medical marijuana was a master stroke. It also helps that marijuana is good for quite a few ailments because of the pervasiveness of the CB1 and CB2 systems in the body.
Keep your eye on Colorado this Nov. The odds are very good that they will vote for full legalization.
And re: linkage – always glad to help libertarian writers especially if they have interesting things to say.
If you come up with something else that you think is important drop a bare link at any one of my posts. We are not fussy about on topic here.
Hmm “Libertarians Fail Because They Don’t Understand Human Nature.” That whole post looks kind of like a VERY long explanation of what I said a few days ago:
“That’s the actual problem with libertarian philosophy. Some people really DO NOT want to make decisions. They want to be told what to do. Libertarians know what to do with tyrants, they know what to do with fellow-travelers. But they don’t know what do do with…well…natural slaves.”
He just said it a lot more politely.
Kathy – yes. But I’m really getting into the cats and dogs analogy. Eric and I were just discussing it. I’m going to do a post.
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They understand human nature better than socialists do.
Alan,
So they say. But I’m not seeing it.
Moral Socialism will fail for the same reason Economic Socialism fails. Not enough information to make decisions for millions of others. What is moral for one man may not be moral for another. I’m not speaking of crimes here. In fact the Moral Socialists love creating black markets. I like the quote at the end of this piece.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
Because we love this idea of prohibitions, we can’t live without them. They are our very favorite thing because we know how to solve difficult, social, economic, and medical problems — a new criminal law with harsher penalties in every category for everybody.
Take the war on alcohol. Championed by the Progressives of the Left and Right. The War on Drugs was started by the same coalition.
Funny that the so called anti-Progressive Party still favors that one.
These days the Moral Progressives can’t wait to create an abortion black market anew. Why? Can’t they figure out how to stop it or at least reduce it greatly without a Big Government Program?
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