@ehBeth,
OmSigDAVID wrote:Hawkeye has admitted to being a socialist.
That is very inconsistent with being enthusiastic about personal freedom,
which is the province of libertarians ( like ME ).
ehBeth wrote:there are libertarians found throughout the political spectrum.
You simply represent one point on that spectrum.
Maybe; depending on
WHAT those alleged libertarians think there shoud be liberty to
DO.
I sought to bring out the fact that it is
the essence of socialist theory
that the freedom of the individual shoud be sacrificed n subordinated to the "general well-being" of the collective.
Hence, thay choose to reject
laissez faire free enterprize in favor of collectivism.
In that spirit, thay champion the power of
AUTHORITY to arrest the freedom of the individual citizen.
David