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Leinad
Junior Chimp
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« on: February 14, 2017, 09:17:23 AM »

This would give America a proper choice between a pro-business, economically liberal Republican Party and a pro-labor, social democratic Democratic Party.

Sounds terrible, unless we get a third major party that is pro-market (which is not the same as "pro-business" Tongue).

Senate Minority Leader: Rand Paul
House Minority Leader: Justin Amash
DNC Chair : Ron Paul
I like the Democratic leadership you chose, that's what the Democratic Party should be like, going back to their roots as a populist party rather than the coastal liberal party of Obama, Hillary and Pelosi it currently is.

Some of those guys have populist appeals, of course, but libertarianism is very different from populism. The way I see it, the former is centered on reason, the latter is centered on whoever screams the loudest. Okay, that's an exaggeration Tongue but I am very much a constitutionalist and a small-r republican over a small-d (wow I laughed at that, am I 12?) democrat. I feel like constitutionalism and populism are generally opposed, but I suppose have overlaps due to their shared opposition to the elites and the loose definition of the latter term (and the former term if you look at what some "constitutional conservatives" support).

I might make a list myself later if I remember to.
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Leinad
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 5,049
United States


Political Matrix
E: -7.03, S: -7.91

« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2017, 09:32:46 AM »
« Edited: February 14, 2017, 09:39:12 AM by Senator Leinad »

Oh I'm aware of that, I know the GOP candidates listed there are libertarians. I was talking about the Democrats on that list, although Blue Dog Democrat may have been a better term than populist

I just saw my mistake--SG had Ron Paul as the "DNC Chair," so my tired brain ignored the "for the GOP" part and somehow thought--even though he has explained, with me present, his desire to see a libertarian GOP multiple times--that he was suggesting the Republitarians and Blue Dogs both switch parties. I am concerned that I did not catch that absurdity before typing a hefty paragraph of complaining about populism (projecting my dislike of Trump and fear of a Warrenite Democratic resurgence in 2020), but hey, I've made worse mistakes. Tongue
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