Nikki Haley-What was the cause of the Civil War

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(01-16-2024, 10:44 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So, what is interesting here is that libertarianism isn't only a right-wing ideology. In fact, that is a distinctly American way of viewing it. There are libertarian socialists that run counter to libertarian capitalists. I use libertarianism in the way that people in the US tend to understand the term which is on the capitalist side of the equation. Here is the distinction between communism and libertarianism, though. First, keep in mind that the "state" has different ways of being defined. I would say the "state" is the overall political body whereas another common viewpoint is the state as a centralized authority. That view is how Marxists tend to view the state. Communism's ideal is a pure democracy with no private property. Pure democracy is sometimes referred to as stateless even though, in my view, there is a government that exists because that is the people and as such there is a state. But that is a disagreement in the field and I am in the minority opinion on it. Anyway, libertarian capitalists, or American libertarianism, favors instead private property ownership and no governance, instead relying on the market interactions to determine the politics.

Politics, FYI, is just how we figure out how to live together. Everything is politics. You can never escape it. *cue evil laugh*

Politics are exhausting haha.

This is why I don't call myself a socialist or a communist or a liberal or anything like that, because I could never verify that I agree with every single assertion of any group. Similarly, I may not even have an opinion on every single thing or may change my opinion based on the results of a policy.

For example, I do not like cuts in taxes for the wealthy. The reason I don't like them is because they do not result in a situation that benefits the majority of people, especially those that need help the most. The idea of trickle down economics did not work and that has been shown over the years.

However, if an alternate universe existed where cutting taxes for wealthy people and corporations did result in more money trickling down to the majority of people and these tax cuts did result in a net positive happiness quotient for the people, I would not oppose them the way I do.

Basically, if right wing policies actually worked, I wouldn't be against them. It's just that all the evidence I've seen indicates that right wing policies are largely ineffective at best and actively harmful at worst. That is obviously a blanket statement and there may be a right wing policy that I agree with down the line, but I can't think of one off the top of my head, at the moment. At least not an economic one.