80% of americans have no ideology, they have porridge for brains, might as well ask what ideology the family dog had; people keep shaking the 8-ball hoping it will give a partisan answer
And your average libertarian has little ideology beyond “I don’t like personally being taxed and having the government spend money on things I don’t personally like”
A lot of us here (myself included) started from South Park libertarianism. At least that version isn’t spawned from “I don’t like taxes”, it comes from “there is something fundamentally wrong with both factions of the ruling elite.”
I used to enjoy his show on late night radio like 15-20 years ago before I realized it wasn’t a bit, which is kinda embarrassing, but also like, his shit sounded extremely like someone doing a bit. “They’re turning the frickin frogs gay” come the fuck on.
as a voting block they mostly exist to extract minor concessions from Republican candidates, like pardoning fellow libertarian and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
*80% of Americans have no coherent ideology. And 80% is low-balling it. But they all of them absolutely have ideology, they are fucking saturated in ideology, they just aren’t aware of it and will deny it, thinking that ideology is only something the evil other has, but not they themselves who are above such things and only see the world “as it really is” untainted by any “lens.” They are the ones with the most ideology. They have white supremacist ideology, they have settler-colonial ideology, they have American exceptionalism ideology, they have a mishmash of wacky Marvel slop and courtroom/cop drama TV series ideology. They have CNN/MSNBC’s ideology or Fox New’s ideology. In other words, their brains have been pickled by the ideology of their ruling class.
80% of americans have no ideology, they have porridge for brains, might as well ask what ideology the family dog had; people keep shaking the 8-ball hoping it will give a partisan answer
The only people I’ve ever met outside of libs and chuds are libertarians, that goes to show how fucked americans are when it comes to politics.
And your average libertarian has little ideology beyond “I don’t like personally being taxed and having the government spend money on things I don’t personally like”
Yeah. Like every one I’ve met in the libertarian vein is an Alex Jones type 🙃
They’re always either conspiracy minded Alex Jones flavor and/or ultra contrarian South Park flavor lol
Can’t forget the “I copied my personality and ideology from Ron Swanson” ones
I never watched that show, but the episode of The Last of Us he was in made me cry lol 😭
The South Park types are at least often on a path to something better
The Alex Jones ones are almost a lost cause
A lot of us here (myself included) started from South Park libertarianism. At least that version isn’t spawned from “I don’t like taxes”, it comes from “there is something fundamentally wrong with both factions of the ruling elite.”
I used to enjoy his show on late night radio like 15-20 years ago before I realized it wasn’t a bit, which is kinda embarrassing, but also like, his shit sounded extremely like someone doing a bit. “They’re turning the frickin frogs gay” come the fuck on.
And they’re the first to complain when potholes don’t get fixed in time.
as a voting block they mostly exist to extract minor concessions from Republican candidates, like pardoning fellow libertarian and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
*80% of Americans have no coherent ideology. And 80% is low-balling it. But they all of them absolutely have ideology, they are fucking saturated in ideology, they just aren’t aware of it and will deny it, thinking that ideology is only something the evil other has, but not they themselves who are above such things and only see the world “as it really is” untainted by any “lens.” They are the ones with the most ideology. They have white supremacist ideology, they have settler-colonial ideology, they have American exceptionalism ideology, they have a mishmash of wacky Marvel slop and courtroom/cop drama TV series ideology. They have CNN/MSNBC’s ideology or Fox New’s ideology. In other words, their brains have been pickled by the ideology of their ruling class.