Group of Republicans and Democrats form new political party to appeal to moderates

deserves its own thread

 

the rejects from both parties have come together to make zero dent in the political landscape

 

Or just vote Libertarian. Why would you want the government stealing from you or telling you what to do?

 

I appeal the human race

 

Because Libertarian thinking is child like.

They want a safe society, just don't want to pay for it.

DD

 

good threads are hard to come by, this one is golden it's all good

 

I don't care about a safe society. I will look after myself. I don't want to pay for you and I don't want you to pay for me (though we are both actually paying for other people). Any concerns I have I am happy to pay individually for, just like I pay for internet access and a cell phone plan and food and electricity.

 

See - child like.....

You can't take care of yourself when facing an army, or a gang, you can't take care of your house if it is on fire, you can't build roads, or bridges, or make it safe for grocery stores, or schools....

You can't just pay what you want and ignore the safety put forth by all the other costs....that is what I mean by child like, there is just no depth of thought into anything.

It is pure selfishness.....and frankly not very well thought out.

More: Internet access? Who pays for the infrastructure? Cell phone - who pays for the infrastructure, who pays for the regulation so cell signals aren't all stepping on each other? Who pays for the roads for the trucks to ride on to bring the food? Who pays for the building of the electrical grid.....

Libertarianism doesn't work - it may have worked in the 1850s, it falls completely apart in a modern society - it is a selfish child like thinking - just no depth....sounds good to a bunch of joe's at the coffee diner but they aren't considering all the stuff behind what they want....it is a selfish brand of ignorance.

DD

 

Which is why I consistently support having a federal government that is limited to it's enumerated powers, which include national defense (army, navy, and militia).

People protect themselves from gangs all the time.

There are more volunteer fire departments than professional fire departments in the United States, and they protect about a third of the United States population. You don't need a government fire department.

There are no private roads or bridges? Was I driving on what I thought were roads and bridges using the power of my imagination?

Which schools are safer, those with private security, or those protected by public resources like the Uvalde or Parkland police departments?

You can just pay for what you want and accept that you don't get what you don't pay for.

I think it is more selfish to force other people to pay your way by ganging up with other people and saying if I don't pay your collective way you will lock me in prison.

Largely companies like Verizon and Comcast, etc. through their subscriber base.

Same.

No one, it is to the benefit of each provider to use different signals to not interfere with each other.

We already covered roads above. Businesses will build roads to allow customers to come to them. Homeowners will build roads for their neighborhoods, etc. The best roads in my city are in private gated communities.

Electrical providers, the same way they do now. They can also choose to connect to each other or not.

I think it works great. All of the best services I get, I pay for. All of the spending I get with the least return to me are my taxes.

 

Imma break from mocking the middle aged middle school kid who just read Atlas Shrugged at his public library, aka the droll rantings of an elderly welfare pensioner, to laugh at the futility of a bunch of middle way morons with their 3d party grift

Jamelle bouie had an excellent piece on this yesterday - the only actually successful 3d parties in US history aren't the middlers but the extremist single issue ones.