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Entry: Ron Paul versus the Beltway "Libertarians" Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ron_paul_versus_the_beltway_libertarians#8129 Post contents: Shamear sed: “Classical Liberalism / libertarianism has a history. It has a meaning, and a definition. Allowing people to simply co-opt a name and then redefine its meaning to exclude the people who are faithful to its historical view and positions is simply absurd.” Well, Communism was a nice theory too, but it’s reality was quite different from the utopian vision of most of it’s rank and file supporters. The same goes for Laissez Faire Capitalism---It was uncontrolled finance capitalism that created the turmoil that brought Europe to endless wars! Hayek was wrong about that. Today it’s reality is the sort of finance capitalism is the root cause of the conflicts with the “Islamo-fascism”. The so-called “Democracy” that the United States is determined to force on the Mideast is in fact, putting those resources into the control of international finance capitalism---which IS the IMF, the World Bank, and the FED--and the Wall Street Bankers and the Hedge Fund managers, the international corporations that sustain it. They are all intrinsically interconnected. There is no such thing as the “free market”, and so-called “Classical Liberalism” can mean anything from the plutocracy of the Southern Plantation economy to the “Cross of Gold” that William Jennings Bryan spoke of that was destroying the lives of the agrarian American population in the “Gilded Age”. Libertarianism is a dangerous utopians, and the “fake libertarians” that Justin complains about are in fact the mainstream, and it is Justin, and Ron Paul, and you so-called “Classical Liberals” that are the lunatic fringe, ranting in the dark about your dreams of “freedom” and “Liberty”. If anything, “conservatives”means the negation of ideology, and you and yours are as deluded ideologues as the neo-conservatives you claim have stolen your movement. Sent at: 2008 07 23