Reply #25: Thanks for coming here to show us that libertarian-leaning paleocons are [View All]

somewhat sane.

I am probably more libertarian than you in the "official," sense -- I so believe in the free market, but only coupled with the responsible consumer and discriminating laborer -- which we don't have in this society. I'm a libertarian socialist, a federalist, and I am pro-decentralized government, but I believe in the "just society," and in civil liberties, etc.

You're exactly right, though, to suggest that the opposite of neocon isn't "Republican," because, these days, the triumvirate of the corpo-fascists, the neocons and the theocons ARE the GOP, and YES it is appropriate to say that libertarianism and paleoconservatism are the opposite of neoconservatism -- but you can be a paleocon, and not a libertarian, at all -- like Pat Buchanan and several others, who basically ignore Hayek and Mises call to at least "tolerate" the libertines in the name of freedom, but have made up some kind of pseudo- fake-o libertarian society that means there's not a state, but "we'll run the rest of this show in a patriarchal, oppressive, religious regieme." It doesn't sound like you're that kind of paleocon or "libertarian."

At any rate, it is here -- the discussion between the libertarian left and the true libertarian right that is the key to ending the Neocon-DLC-Corpo-Fascist hold on this country -- and our psyches.

People are confused though, about whom they should align with, and even what specific political designations mean.

Anyway, welcome to DU.