Quote from Scataphagos:
Heard this quote many times before. (How does that work? I can't see how those philosophies can realistically co-exist in the same body. Please explain.)
How can you be for "spend/overspend on social programs", yet "not overspend" as a Conservative?
(Personally, I'm a "Darwinist".)
It's actually quite easy. Being a social liberal doesn't mean you support welfare, food stamps and subsidized housing, or Obamacare, for example. It just means you are open to people doing whatever they want within the confines of their own property/house. A few examples of Libertarian positions (and my personal view attached) for explanation:
1. Pro gay marriage. People should be able to marry whoever or whatever they want, so long as it is in their own lives. But don't preach it and celebrate it in classrooms where my kids go to school.
2. Pro choice. While I am personally against abortion, I believe in everyone's rights to do whatever they want with their bodies. That means a woman who wants to abort their child can do so - until you legally define the fetus as a human, then it becomes a discussion on another's rights.
3. Legalization of drugs. Smoke whatever you want, drink whatever you want, and do it in your own home/property. Get behind the wheel of a car, etc, then you're subject to the law because you can hurt others. Wanna sit home and shoot heroin in your basement all day? Go for it. Legalize all drugs and tax the shit out of them.
and so on. All of these positions are social conservative positions. I do not prescribe to many, if any, conservative social positions.
None of these positions compromise my fiscal conservative policy of "get the government out of spending on any of it".
Feel free to ask me my position on anything at all. As long as you hold to the defining principle that people can do what they want to themselves, and the government stays out of everything except perhaps, national defense, etc (state governments have much larger responsibilities) then you're a Libertarian.
