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I think the party of the future (or more accurately the party with the brightest future is the one that embraces these ideals) is made up of social liberals and economic conservatives - aka "when Libertarians meet the ACLU halfway" or the purple people. Whether they are "selfish liberals" or philosophically honest conservatives... live and let live- what's mine is mine and the government had better not take it but whatever the hell you want to do is great so long as it doesn't interfere with me... that to me is libertarianism.
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but then again there are pragmatic libertarians who realize that the market place would not have defeated Hitler in the 40's, built the interstate highway system in the 50's, or gotten us to the moon in the 60's. That government is there to do do the things we cannot on our own. (like take over a large middle eastern country with tremendous oil reserves to ensure our well being for the next few decades ... woops, I bet I lost several people that were agreeing with me up until that point.)
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