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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: June 19, 2007, 05:01:10 PM »

You've done nothing to explain how he's fascist.

That would be because I'm not actually trying to Smiley

Hyperbole aside, I don't think he's a fascist or anything, but there are certain interesting similarities between American Libertarianism and fascism. That's all.

Ok, so you say things for shock, much like BRTD and DWDL.  Got it.

Well there is the appeal towards a mythological national past.. the Republicans do this also. But the Libertarians go back further.. not to the 1950s but pre-FDR and the more radical ones back even further.. Pre-Lincoln or the Republican idealists of the Revolutionary war. Libertarianism is of course fundamentally American in character.

Libertarians also don't seem to get the link between disposal income and 'social' freedom (This isn't a fascist characteristic, just an observation).

And the answer is no, obviously. Under any defintion of the word. Gladstone was a Classical liberal, Ron Paul is an intelligent extremist.
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2007, 08:50:42 AM »

wait, i missed something.

did someone actually compare gladstone and paul?

that is lolz funny.

gladstone actually had some concern for the powerless. 

I did. But it wasn't positive for Ron Paul.

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