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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many people who are libertarian leaning. I wouldn't call them glibertarians just because they aren't the anarcho-capitalists they were in high school and now have higher priorities than privatizing roads.

OP here.

I'm surprised the first responder doesn't think there are many libs here in DC. There are many in the legal community. [/quote]

True libertarians?  I think there are many people with libertarian ideals, but don't truely believe that you have the ability to let people follow their own ideals in their own way.  True libertarians defend the right of the individual over all.  Most people defend the right of the collective over all.  Most lawyers I've met fight the rights of "big business" not the individual.

If you follow wikipedia of media version of libertarianism, that's great, it's a step in the right direction - read the party platform http://www.lp.org/platform we'd love to have you!  I've lived here 20 years and I've only one met one other libertarian that I did not meet at a party meeting.

Oh, I've met people who "called" themselves libertarians but when you ask them if they believe for example that the government should stop ALL welfare programs.  They back away.  If you ask if they believe that there should be no social security, they suddenly call themselves "independants."  When you ask if the government should completely be kept out of schools...

You get the point.

The federal government has been taking your rights for a long time.  Yesterday was a big event for the LP and something that we libertarians celebrate.  It's sad that it gets no coverage at all.

Again, I understand what type of discourse you were trying to start and that makes me even more sad for you as a "so called libertarian"[/quote]

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