Originally Posted by The_Dunedan

The difficulty is this: libertarians (and some Conservatives) favour an -absence- of action. They don't simply favour -different- actions, or actions intended to benefit different groups, but the lack of action alltogether.

It's akin to trying to stop a runaway train. The Leftist (and Neo-Conservative) approach is to redirect the train, send it someplace else, in hopes that it will do less damage "over there" or that the train will simply run out of steam before it hits something. The libertarian (and paleo-Conservative) approach is to try and stop the train alltogether, dead in its' tracks, in order to prevent it hitting anything, anywhere. Sometimes this means applying the brake, sometimes it means using explosives and blowing the tracks. When the train is being driven by leftists (or Bu'ushist* Neo-Cons) who refuse to acknowledge the course it's on, the result is frequently that the L/P-C contingent gets turned into hamburger, and the train keeps going full-speed until it demolishes a hospital, a church, an orphanage, and a gun-shop. This is the result of the last 10-15yrs.


*A term of derision, borrowed with permission from the inestimable William Grigg, of Pro Libertate.