Libertarians

There's a third party out there: the Libertarians, and I always vote for their slate of candidates when possible.

Here's a link:

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-4987678/chase-oliver-libertarian-president-trump-mises-caucus

My view on libertarians is they tend to be both very smart and very dumb at the same time. I used to be a libertarian, and some of my closest friends to this day are. But, they do not have a firm basis on reality in the sense of making America the strongest nation in the world in my view. I feel like most college libertarians just want to smoke weed in public and not conform to social norms, there are some principled ones, but I do not think that this is the average.

There are some libertarian candidates that I personally like, but this election is too important to restore democracy to risk voting for them.

Oh, I agree.

I only vote that way to be contrarian: were their a viable option for "Nihilism" I might vote that ticket.

Life's a game, then you die: all that is in between is road apples.

Quote: Gandler

My view on libertarians is they tend to be both very smart and very dumb at the same time. I used to be a libertarian, and some of my closest friends to this day are. But, they do not have a firm basis on reality in the sense of making America the strongest nation in the world in my view. I feel like most college libertarians just want to smoke weed in public and not conform to social norms, there are some principled ones, but I do not think that this is the average.

There are some libertarian candidates that I personally like, but this election is too important to restore democracy to risk voting for them.

You used to be? You do not have a libertarian bone in your body.

Making America "the strongest nation in the world" has zero place in a libertarian's world. They do not want us getting into things like Ukraine where we have minimal interest.

Quote: missedhervee

Oh, I agree.

I only vote that way to be contrarian: were their a viable option for "Nihilism" I might vote that ticket.

Life's a game, then you die: all that is in between is road apples.

If there was a Nihilism party, I would be president.

Quote: DRich

If there was a Nihilism party, I would be president.

Nihilists

Quote: AZDuffman

You used to be? You do not have a libertarian bone in your body.

Making America "the strongest nation in the world" has zero place in a libertarian's world. They do not want us getting into things like Ukraine where we have minimal interest.

Oh yes, when young. In fact I think when I turned 18 Ron Paul (it was either him or Ralph Nader, I honestly don't recall, but probably Ron Paul at that stage in my life,) was my first Presidential vote senior year of HS, and I supported him in 2012 as well.

Most of college I was very active in libertarian groups.

This may shock you, I am still a registered Republican because of him (wanted to support him in primaries, and never bothered to change my party affiliation since I turned 18, also I tend to find Republican primaries more interesting, so it has its upsides)

You are correct, I do not have such views anymore, I used to hold almost the polar opposite views when I was younger, then I matured. I am very much on the centralized national viewpoint now, which is the correct view. I used to be very anti-military and anti-foreign conflict, now I think we need more involvement in almost every region. Really the only thing I agree with libertarians on now is gay marriage, abortion, and marijuana legalization (and I am getting more on the fence about that recently.)