r/inthenews • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • May 27 '24

Donald Trump rejected by Libertarians, gets less than 1% of vote article

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rejected-libertarians-less-one-percent-vote-presidential-election-1904870
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u/electron-envy May 27 '24

Got to hand it to them. Their ideology is fuckin weird, but they stand by it.

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u/WaltKerman May 27 '24 edited May 27 '24

Libertarian is just anti-authoritarian by definition. It's why he was rejected. 

Then there is the libertarian platform, which is where you have to draw a line. Libertarians can't agree on this and there is a lot of "no true Scotsman" fallacy going on. So the result is often leaning to the strange far end spectrum. 

 It's one of the reasons they can't win.

Edit: If you wants to see what I meant by "No True Scotsman" (No True Libertarian could believe....) just look at some of the comments arguing below me here, and how widely they vary.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation May 27 '24

Libertarianism is a dead political ideology that requires everyone e being a rational actor and beliving that negative externalities dont exist.

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u/SubtleDistraction May 27 '24

I was a registered Libertarian for a while, and voted conservative pretty much until Trump made me open my eyes. I'd read about robber barons, and company towns and all the evil businesses get up into, and it slowly dawned on me, oh shit, we're still there.