🇺🇸 Want to keep NH from going the way of our New England Neighbors? We’re going to need a lot of help in the mid-term elections. 🫡
🇺🇸 Want to keep NH from going the way of our New England Neighbors? We’re going to need a lot of help in the mid-term elections. 🫡
I’m not talking about bailouts so much (which I also am against, unless warranted) but the power that comes with economic success. It is difficult to control this power without rules, with which libertarians may or may not agree. With no control on that power I really don’t see how you will attain this “freedom” you’re looking for. You’re right, hater is too strong a word. I just tend to see your group far more likely to criticize democrats for their perceived overreach (which to be honest is exactly that on too many occasions) rather than the more dangerous free for all that republicans espouse which although appealing to libertarians, is actually far more detrimental to your goals. I’ll have to keep an eye on New Hampshire going forward. I didn’t know there was a concentrated movement there. Send along any links you might think will help educate me. Thanks.
The Free State Project puts out a ton of social media . They also have a weekly newsletter which is pretty good.
I plan to keep posting stuff here on lemmy too.
Not knowing many specifics about libertarianism, I did some reading today on the policies of the Libertarian Party of Canada (https://www.libertarian.ca/statement_of_policy), more relevant to me and I thought a fair representation (let me know if not true). Man this stuff is so full of holes I couldn’t stop shaking my head. Now I completely appreciate the desire of those involved to come up with a more just society, but you guys are going to get owned by the many exploiters on this earth. I brought up a few points yesterday that are ones I still wondered about during my reading but you didn’t really respond to any of them. You said you disagree with GOP/Dem policy but that you don’t mind engaging. So what’s up.
Well, people are allowed to make money, as long as they are not cheating others to do so. That’s how we get better goods and services at better prices – free market competition. Normally when the government gets involved in something (like your growing tomatoes example), their intervention adds additional expense to the final product. As long as no party is being coerced, let people figure it out on their own without the government.
You mentioned a “closed system”. I interpreted that as one free from government intervention. I think most libertarians would support that.
In the tomato example there is no government involvement, that’s the point. My reference to a closed system is that unless the state of New Hampshire stops anyone from outside coming in, cheap labour would quickly supplant the ability to earn a living wage. Cheap labour can live 20 to a room. Can you compete with that. Anyway, I don’t expect you to have all the answers, nor to spend a lot of time explaining things to me. Suffice it to say that I need to find a different way to debate these points. I do appreciate your time.