Oh, you had a libertarian phase too? Mine lasted maybe a month or two before ascending to the more ideologically consistent view of anarchism and then to being a full blown communist a few years later.
Yeah, same. Right libertarians say things about children’s rights/freedoms that sound right if you’ve never been into politics before and that issue’s really appealing if you’re a young kid frustrated at how society treats you with no more autonomy than your pet cat, sometimes less. But if that hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have drifted over to left-anarchism when I figured out right libertarians are self contradictory and bigoted conservatives, and if I hadn’t been interested in arguing with “them damn tankies” I wouldn’t have wound up an ML, so I guess I’m glad it happened.
Oh, you had a libertarian phase too? Mine lasted maybe a month or two before ascending to the more ideologically consistent view of anarchism and then to being a full blown communist a few years later.
Libertarian is the first obvious step as an American going “Wait something’s fucked up here”
Especially if you’re from the south
Yeah, same. Right libertarians say things about children’s rights/freedoms that sound right if you’ve never been into politics before and that issue’s really appealing if you’re a young kid frustrated at how society treats you with no more autonomy than your pet cat, sometimes less. But if that hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have drifted over to left-anarchism when I figured out right libertarians are self contradictory and bigoted conservatives, and if I hadn’t been interested in arguing with “them damn tankies” I wouldn’t have wound up an ML, so I guess I’m glad it happened.