this without cringing. Apparently some people are so resigned to partisan politics that they swear up and down everyone is donkey or elephant…

What’s worse is the tired implication that libertarians are just pot-smoking republicans. If this post had more tact behind it I would assume that their experience with libertarianism was solely of the questionable-at-the-least “Neo-” variety, but I doubt he even looked that far.

The following is for “Huck”:

That post just shows how deep fatalism has sunk in. If the status-quo is so tight that the only choices are both crap, the proper response is to junk the entire status-quo itself. The last time I voted was in 2000, for a straight Libertarian ticket. Having come to the conclusion that politics itself is the problem, I have not bothered since.

IMO, eventually a true libertarian realizes that what they’re calling for is the abolition of Politics As We Know It. In the short term, they may lean towards a party for strategic reasons — for example, I’m not a democrat myself but I find the republican party to be even worse, so I generally focus my rage at the GOP — but in the long run what would be success to a serious libertarian would be unrecognizeable for anyone used to the current way of politics.

Imagine virtually everything that politicians do being voided out, and politics becoming irrelevant, and then you’ll have an idea of what libertarianism is. We are gradual revolutionaries if anything.

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