This is a great topic as it seems to create a lot of passion, which can be very exciting to the brain and to other nether regions. With respect to all, I am one of those folks who used to count myself as a liberal libertarian (the freedom to take cum and love who I loved) but who has moved to the libertarian right (the freedom from government abuse) after seeing my trust abused by the uniparty, which channels discord to sow partisanship as a distraction from the fact that it works together against most Americans' and non-Americans' interests. I used to trust the left to oppose war and corporate fraud, and now I think the left has either lost its muscle in this space or else never had it. I would concede that there are important differences between liberals and conservatives, but the political media magnifies and dramatizes the differences while stealing the country blind. It also creates an atmosphere in which it is unsafe to order a la carte from a partially liberal and partially conservative menu and forces partisans to see a deranged worst in each other. I appreciate the values of socialists who want to help others, but I am completely over the tendency to help others by running through other people’s money. Typically the great majority of people you might imagine are "privileged" are nowhere near as privileged as you think they are. If 51% of the people voted that you should kill people, would you do it? or do you have any ethical basis for action? I think there are good people in both major parties, and I think each of the parties has decent points, but both are led by grifters who leave me with little faith that either a Republican or a Democratic platform can address the issues I care about:
1. As much as I respect the liberals for their compassion for the poor, I respect the conservatives for also having some love and compassion for themselves and opposing the woke call to self-annihilate.
2. I don’t respect the left’s view that the stored value of the hard labor of others amounts to a good pirating opportunity.
3. An out-of-control empire that needs to end
4. Out-of-control spending that is destroying common people’s savings and shifting more power to the elites
5. I think the liberals are fooling themselves that they can value people while supporting mass censorship of all who disagree with them (leftists are also censored, and conservatives sometimes ignore this). it is disappointing to see so many free people crave approval from government experts and unable to value the contributions of generalists to the collection of valuable insights. I doubt that the kid who could tell the emperor had no clothes needed a certification or a degree to discern the emperor’s nudity.
6. It is sad that liberals have not noticed that all government agencies are captured by the special interests they were created to moderate in the public interest. yet often liberals just want more government.
7. it is sad that liberals (and sometimes conservatives) think their fellow adult citizens need a nanny and that politicians are good nannies. I find this mentality especially hard to understand on a bareback site.
8. It is sad that liberals have forgotten that government doesn’t create rights. Rights are inherent to sentient beings. The Founders of the country knew that their constitution wasn’t creating rights but instead acknowledging pre-existing rights endowed by the creator. The word "responsibility" doesn’t show up anywhere in the Constitution,
9. A climate agenda that promotes slogans, encourages dogma rather than thought, and undermines innovation
10. People with a mission who need others to glorify their choices instead of creating space for diversity of thought and coexistence.
11. People who have lost their faith in their ability to influence others and instead want the government to make people do things.
Although it is not perfect, I think the libertarian approach creates the greatest amount of safe space for radical homosexuals, conservative Mormons, satanists, and video-game addicts. I see no inconsistency in a world that creates maximal space for the differing tribes that inhabit it. It gives both conservatives and liberals a safe space in which to pursue their values in a way that doesn’t eliminate space for others to do their thing.
In terms of how I’m voting this year, I hope to find something I can vote for, but I will still vote if all I can find is something to vote against.
Happy brain and physical titillations to you all.