Quote:If you are going to have that loose a definition of "property and life," then I don't think you're a Libertarian so much as a moderate with some libertarian leanings.   Or maybe just moderately libertarian.  Which is what I think I am, but it's all a matter of degree.   I probably want a little more government than you do.  

 

I don't think you and I have enough of a difference on ideology to have an argument.   We could argue over the specifics, but that's about it.  

 

From what I've read, the Libertarians I've talked to, the Libertarian sponsored party meetings I've attended that's the interpretation of Life and Property that's always used.

 

There's a narrative by Republicans and Democrats alike to paint Libertarians as militia nut jobs, in our bunkers, with canned food waiting for the apocalypse, while stashing away gold. Some of it's true, there's a strong militia movement within the Libertarian party, there's also the fair share of "doomsdayers" myself included in the Libertarian party. But the party itself is a very moderate party. Johnson who won the presidential nomination for the Libertarian party described it as a fiscally conservative socially liberal party.

 

I think the Libertarian party could become a real force with the combination of their message to end the war on drugs and end the foreign interventions like Iraq, Afghanistan, now Syria, Libya and so on.

 

Abortion is about the only issue you find inconsistency in the Libertarian party, some say it falls under the protection of life (I'd align myself with that part of the party) others argue it falls under the protection of the mothers body as her property. Comes back to the same argument when does it become a life and when is it granted rights as a life.

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