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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
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Pretty damn good. Too much binary thinking. It's almost like you can't classify political beliefs along a single dimension -- who would have thought!?
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..and libertarians tend to be the most susceptible to binary thinking. Too much government bad! Therefore no government good! In the end, most self-proclaimed libertarians are actually just using the label to cover. There are of course legit libertarians like Justin Amash and Erik Vorhees, but most are cosplaying.
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I think there’s a lot of value in people deconstructing their political beliefs into individual elements. Are they socially progressive or conservative/orthodox? Are they in favour of workers having democratic power within a company or do they believe that only shareholders should have decision making power? (good faith here requires keeping in mind workers would still be able to delegate their decision making power) Are they in favour of a republic with a small number of politicians guiding decisions or a democracy where more people are involved in decision-making? Are they in favour of more laws, regulation, and the enforcement through violence (autocratic) or more in favour of freedom of association, self-determination, and community/self-policing (libertarian)? Do they believe markets are inherently wise or that some services must be decommodified to function well. The interesting thing about reflecting on this is you see immediately how impotent a two-party system is at meeting anyone’s needs.
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