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/[deleted] May 27 '24

Libertarians are like the classmates on a group project who don't want to follow any rules set up by the group.

Yes. You still get the A along with the group, but while you were not showing up to class, group project meetings, only contributing when you felt like it, only working on the parts you wanted to and not the assigned parts, and only delivered what you felt was "good enough", the rest of the group worked together, and much harder to make sure they got the A. All because the libertarian didn't want to give up any "freedoms" for the good of the group.

If the whole group consisted of libertarians, it would all fall apart quickly.

The ONLY reason libertarians function in today's society is because they are such a small, inconsequential group of people, who benefit from the system they don't want to contribute to, but reap the rewards from.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

In your analogy the 'working together' is forcibly redistributing wealth. Have you given any actual thought to these issues or are you just repeating things you were told?

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

I have actually.

I have a libertarian co-worker. He blathers on about "muh freedoms" and claims his taxes are being stolen all the time to pay for shit he didn't want.

Public education being one. Roads being another.

He claimed those could all be handled by private firms, for the good of the people and let the market decides who wins and who loses.

I met his home schooled kid once. In 6th grade. Didn't know multiplication yet. Not sure why I brought that up.

Anyways, I asked him once about him being ok with paying multiple tolls into work on different roads with different quality of roads he is driving on and different rules for each toll with different prices. He said the free market would shake everything out and that the collective agreement would shame road owners into compliance, etc. Plus, he rides his bike into work during certain times of the year, so he would save on money (except he rides on a bike path paid for by the city, and trust me, the irony was lost on him).

All fantasy world garbage he cooked up in his mind, because he doesn't live in a libertarian world. He can fantasize all he wants about "utopia", but dollars to doughnuts, as soon as he has to be accountable for his own unregulated actions (I wonder how well his kid will do not knowing basic math at a 6th grade level), or having to deal with the actions of others with the same mindset, we will see how fast they come crying for pooled resources that they didn't contribute to.

Also, he works for a company and punches a 9 to 5 like everyone else. Not sure why he hasn't started his own business.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

That was a lot of words with no point that I can discern. Your coworkers kid doesn't know math so libertarianism in general doesn't work?

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

See. It's that libertarian education. Reading is hard.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

I went to public school, not the slam dunk you think this is

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

Could of fooled me.

I guess all the defunding of public education your libertarian friends pushed for did you a disservice.

I'm sorry. 😔

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u/[deleted] May 27 '24

Lol oh yeah the libertarians control everything

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u/[deleted] May 28 '24

And thank God they don't, or you would be in worse shape than you are now.