http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=6042 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:02:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=6042&cpage=1#comment-209893 Jeremy Pober Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:34:47 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=6042#comment-209893 Ron, As usual, I agree strongly with this piece. I think that "soft libertarians" i.e. those who have their basis in liberal rather than anarchistic philosophy, are the new RINOs. Yesterday, I <a href="http://toojb.com/two-kinds-of-libertarian-distinctions/" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> about how even the use of the term libertarian obfuscated the similarities between these people and those of us on the left, and how it also supplied a false sense of camaraderie with much more out-there anarchists. In that post I noted the similarity between your mission statement and that of Cato/Will Wilkinson, who falls into this category of libertarian (although there are members of Cato that obviously do not). Ron,
As usual, I agree strongly with this piece. I think that “soft libertarians” i.e. those who have their basis in liberal rather than anarchistic philosophy, are the new RINOs. Yesterday, I wrote about how even the use of the term libertarian obfuscated the similarities between these people and those of us on the left, and how it also supplied a false sense of camaraderie with much more out-there anarchists. In that post I noted the similarity between your mission statement and that of Cato/Will Wilkinson, who falls into this category of libertarian (although there are members of Cato that obviously do not).

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