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Originally Posted by tommy156
Which is not at all liberal. Libertarians are just Republicans who don't want to pay taxes.
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completely wrong. so now that you admit Rogan is a Libertarian .. libertarians are liberals who are disaffected by modern far left big government Democrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
In the United States,
libertarian was popularized by the
individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker around the late 1870s and early 1880s.
[68] Libertarianism as a synonym for
liberalism was popularized in May 1955 by writer Dean Russell, a colleague of
Leonard Read and a
classical liberal himself. Russell justified the choice of the term as follows:
Many of us call ourselves "liberals." And it is true that the word "liberal" once described persons who respected the individual and feared the use of mass compulsions. But the leftists have now corrupted that once-proud term to identify themselves and their program of more government ownership of property and more controls over persons. As a result, those of us who believe in freedom must explain that when we call ourselves liberals, we mean liberals in the uncorrupted classical sense. At best, this is awkward and subject to misunderstanding. Here is a suggestion: Let those of us who love liberty trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word "libertarian."[69][70][71]
Subsequently, a growing number of Americans with classical liberal beliefs began to describe themselves as libertarians. One person responsible for popularizing the term
libertarian in this sense was
Murray Rothbard, who started publishing libertarian works in the 1960s.
[72] Rothbard described this modern use of the words overtly as a "capture" from his enemies, writing that "for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy. 'Libertarians' had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over".
[13]
According to common United States meanings of
conservative and
liberal,
libertarianism in the United States has been described as
conservative on economic issues (
economic liberalism and
fiscal conservatism) and
liberal on personal freedom (
civil libertarianism and
cultural liberalism).
[77] It is also often associated with a foreign policy of
non-interventionism.
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so .. Rogan is a disaffected LIBERAL who is now a Libertarian
not a Republican
