desert dude
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I am not a Republican. I am also not a libertarian in the purest sense, though I think if I have to choose a label then Libertarian comes as close as any. I am a social liberal, i.e., "do as you please with your own life, as long as you don't harm others", and a fiscal conservative, i.e. "you made it, you keep it". I am a capitalist because I think the most efficient way to prosperity is to allow everybody to make their own decisions as to how to use their own resources; some will fail, others will succeed. The least efficient way to prosperity, actually the best way to poverty, is to allow some politburo to plan and guide an economy. Note that I am not a crony-capitalist, that is just a system to pick the pockets of the sheep and fill the pockets of the wolves. Democrats and Republicans are crony-capitalists, though each side tries to pretend there is a vast philosophical difference between them.You're not a libertarian though. You're a Republican racist capitalist who thinks that the constitution is holy writ. This makes you a statist. Capitalism is wealth redistribution upward. Private hereditary ownership of the means of production and natural resources used for personal profit doesn't reconcile with your vaunted nonaggression principal. The reasons are two fold. First because the original acquisition of them was achieved through genocide and second because they become a goad by which those who require the sustenance they provide to toil for the enrichment of the "owners".
There are no libertarians in the GOP. You're not a libertarian. You're a teabagger.
I think the TEA party revolt was the best thing to happen in American politics in my lifetime. It has been co-opted by self serving politicians, unfortunately.
Socialism is foolish because it is contradictory to human nature. Nobody is going to put any effort into an enterprise only to give away all the gains to the anonymous masses. Witness Unclebuck, for example. UB cries about his great regard for the down trodden and trumpets the generosity of the state while slyly avoiding paying any taxes. UB is a capitalist. The only form of socialism that works is within the nuclear family. I always think of a quote from an anonymous Russian that I read years ago, "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". That sums up socialism better than any text book rant on RIU.
The only interest I have in race is that it is used as a weapon to divide and conquer by our masters in DC. Your implication that capitalism and racism are joined at the hip just makes you look dumb, AC.
As far as the constitution goes, I like the idea that we "are a nation of laws and not men". The constitution is not perfect but I have seen no better way to implement a nation of laws.