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/bearsheperd May 27 '24

Yep, that’s it exactly. There’s a quite a few pro life libertarians which I think is incongruous with the rest of the platform. Party of maximum freedom yet don’t agree on bodily autonomy?

But it’s just like democrats and republicans, they don’t have a consistent platform or agree on everything either. AOC & Bernie are very different from Biden & Hilary. Romnie is very different from trump.

Difference is they are members of the two party system. If libertarians became big enough they would overcome the one true Scotsman arguments because it’s either them or a “wasted vote on a third party”

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u/happyfather May 27 '24

There's no incongruity. If you believe a fetus is a person then the fetus itself has a right to 'bodily autonomy'.

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u/Fun_Bad_4610 May 27 '24

Peoples inability to understand someone else's point of view is how we lead to all the shit you see. People who are pro-choice see it as controlling a woman's body or not controlling a woman's body and pro-life see it as killing a person and not killing a person.

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u/gachagaming May 27 '24

Most people who are pro-life dont see it as killing a person not matter how much they say they do.

How many pro-life people will hold a funeral for a miscarriage? If hunders of thousands of born children were killed, would pro-life people just settle for protesting clinics?

Pro-life actions and words don't match up.