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Timothy McVeigh was no true Scotsman! Classic.
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To paraphrase Londo Mollari: Ignorance and smugness in one package, how efficient of you.
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Not in the least. He strongly believed in the second amendment, he believed in radically small federal government, he believed that military expansionism was wrong, he believed in individual liberties, and was strongly against taxes. I can't imagine a better description of a libertarian. The fact that he became radical does not change his core political beliefs.
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Again with the ignorance. You are clearly totally unfamiliar with the philosophical underpinnings of libertarianism, preferring to fill in the gaps in your knowledge with sound-bites and prejudices. Not very liberal-minded or well-informed of you, is it? A typical Collectivist, you see everything on group-vs-group terms, never bothering to descend to the level of the Individual.
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No. A left centrist is in control of the White House now, preceded by a far right chicken hawk neoconservative, preceded by another centrist, preceded by a right winger neoconservative, preceded by the first neoconservative. We've not had a "leftist" president for a very long time, and only someone off the deep end of the right could call President Obama a leftist with a straight face.
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After you've read up on libertarianism and what it means, I recommend you read a bit on the Fabian Socialists of England. Then compare this to what libertarians believe. At this point, you might meditate upon what a libertarian might think of "right" and "left." Here's a hint; RoachBoy is partially correct.
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and libertarian/authoritarian is ENTIRELY another spectrum.
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Correct, and thank you.
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To collapse them onto a single axis is inaccurate and probably comes from an attempt to invest the political opposition with dangers Otherness.
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And again, thank you. However, if I were you I'd expand this realm of inquiry. You might be surprised by what you find: L. Neil Smith is a good place to start.