WSJ on Libertarians

[selenite0]

Mostly silly, but with a great line:

Even if this party never puts a candidate into the Oval Office, its ultimate purpose may be to help the two opposing major parties view each other through more sober lenses, and thus help the country arrive at a happy, if gay, marriage.

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[phoenixsinger.livejournal.com]

The only politics my husband Patrick will admit to is libertarianism. (This is the man who doesn't vote because he swears anyone who wants political office should be kept out for that reason alone. He also doesn't vote in order to avoid jury duty.) I don't agree with skipping out on the right to vote, but I do agree with him on many other things.

We are socially liberal. But I don't think anybody we know well would call us "hedonistic". :)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Hmph. He won't vote AND he won't serve on juries?

And just how does he think he deserves any of the benefits of citizenship?

There's someone who needs to go seriously study what conditions are like in other countries, and how much better we have it than most of the world. He should do his civic duty.

Sorry, dear, I love you, but I think he's acting very wrongly.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I figure there's always got to be someone less bad on the ballot, or at least some minor party candidate I can use as "none of the above."

[wolfrick.livejournal.com]

What Celtic Dragonfly said.

Plus, his strategy to avoid jury duty is going to fail him soon.... The jury pool is now taken from more public records than just the voters registration rolls... including drivers license and property tax.

So, he might as well vote.

Heinlein said something like "If you can't decide for whom to vote, go on down to the polling place. There's usually people advocating for one candidate or another. Listen for a while and pick out the biggest fathead, and vote against his candidate."

[phoenixsinger.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey, I said I don't agree. I research the candidates and vote, thank you. (And I enjoy the prospect of jury duty. I would serve more often if they would let me.)

I am not particularly patriotic but I do that much.

I am not trying to defend his behavior. Just questioning what the article defines as libertarian, because that model and Pat don't match. :)

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I don't think that article's model of libertarians matches any actual libertarians.