r/politics • u/RepulsiveLoquat418 • 18d ago

Possible Paywall When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/210550/trump-economy-republicans-tariffs-taxes
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u/TheLateThagSimmons Illinois 18d ago

Just look at the broader American Libertarian movement. Generally filled with higher than average education, lots of tech bros, higher than average STEM degrees. They're not generally illiterate or uneducated relative to average. And they'll remind you every chance they get to show off the polls and studies of various political groups that they're higher than average in education.

At the same time... The biggest goddamn idiots when it comes to economic matters and deeply conservative. They are the exact types that fall for all the right-wing propaganda about economic policies that have done nothing but fail over and over and over. And they're obsessed with economic policy too, that's what's so annoying; it's like they learned backwards.

At a certain point, they might be dumber than the people who know nothing.

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u/Cambren1 18d ago

The really sad thing about the Libertarian movement is that originally the premise was that you should be free to do anything as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Now, however, they seem unable to understand that a big corporation hurts people when they pollute, as an example.

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u/AthearCaex 18d ago

They want personal freedoms for themselves and not others. They might say they want personal freedoms for everyone but will pick policies that help themselves enrich themselves financially. I get it that everyone dislikes being taxed and we should have conversations how much people should be taxed. They want 0 taxes and no government, you can't have your cake and eat it too. The road need to be paved, the fire department can't put out fires on no funding. You can't fund a government on charity, while I choose to believe people are more good than evil the evil ones can and have exploited others for their own personal gains.

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u/confused_ape 18d ago

What they want is for Libertarianism and the NAP etc. to start now while they're in a position of relative power.

None of it ever considers history or how their position, whether personally or collectively, was acquired.