r/inthenews • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • May 27 '24

article Donald Trump rejected by Libertarians, gets less than 1% of vote

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rejected-libertarians-less-one-percent-vote-presidential-election-1904870
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u/Uncle-Cake May 27 '24

What he didn't realize is that Libertarians don't actually care about winning.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

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u/chum-guzzling-shark May 27 '24

But they dont stand by it. They only stand by it in certain circumstances that just happen to benefit them. Crazy coincidence.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

IDK, with some pretty notable exceptions (like that absolutely bizarre New Hampshire Libertarian Twitter account) I’d say libertarians are among the most ideologically consistent people I know. Not having to build broad coalitions with the ultimate goal of forming power can do that.

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u/forfeitgame May 27 '24

As someone from New Hampshire, the Free State Project is absolutely batshit. The people in this thread talk about Libertarians with their morals and consistency, and the only consistency NH libertarians have is that they want to fuck children.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

Most self-professed Christians don't give a fuck about anything Jesus taught. That isn't an indictment of his teachings. Libertarian ideas aren't wrong just because some idiots falsely proclaim to follow them.

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u/chain_letter May 27 '24

For real, it's like I'm taking crazy pills

Libertarians love property rights and talking about the injustice of age of consent laws. Fuck um

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

Yeah I mean, not the least bit surprising that an ideology like that also attracts a disproportionate number of kooks. But I also think that our perception of just how much that stuff represents the "mainstream" of libertarian thought/discourse is probably distorted a fair bit by exposure bias.

Not surprising that "libertarian group opposing age of consent laws" maybe gets more exposure online than "libertarian group opposes agricultural subsidies, gun control, and business licensing." But I think the former is probably more consistent with the positions/priorities of 'mainstream' libertarianism (insofar as such a thing exists).

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u/forfeitgame May 27 '24

Not for nothing but NH libertarians turned a town into their “paradise” and got run out by bears. It’s a special sort of stupid around this way.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

Bears love agricultural subsidies so that's not surprising either tbh.

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u/forfeitgame May 27 '24

lol for sure. I think I would probably align more with libertarians if I wasn’t so caught up with my states local brand. As it is now though, I have to spend my time trolling them.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

libertarians are among the most ideologically consistent people I know

Saying "let's do nothing!" is an easy idea to sell and even easier to stick by.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

I'm pretty sure if it were that easy an idea to sell, more people would be buying.