Quote:Didn't say it hasn't been around a long time. 

 

Meant it as more people seem to be going that way lately. 

 

EricC85 pretty much backed up that statement in a recent post on the "Politics OK?" thread. 

 

Yes, people do seem to be going that way a lot more recently.

 

Likely because it's such a simple ideology that it's easy to ignore all the problems it would create.

 

When people are thinking "Hey, they say I should be free to get baked out of my gourd all the time, that sounds pretty good" they're not thinking about other libertarian ideals like the freedom for "my boss to be able to demand I work 80 hours a week for minimum wage or he'll move all the jobs in our company to Mexico or India and there will be no tariffs to make that a problem for him at all."

 

Like most things it's easy to find something appealing when you're only thinking about the parts that sound immediately good to you, and like all political ideologies a bit more thinking about it would likely leave you finding parts of it that you wouldn't particularly appreciate.

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