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michael's avatar

Well said

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The problem goes back to the causes of the Civil War.

At that time, the North was able to impose its will militarily on the South and pretend the issue was 'slavery' when, in fact, it was about the nature of the America's constitutional 'union'.

I agree there are two cultures. There is the culture that destroyed the South in order to rule over it from the North, and the culture of the South that sought not to be ruled by high-handed Northerners. The fundamental problem of 'libertarianism' is that it cannot admit that it sides with the totalitarians because of 'civil rights' while pretending to side with the Southerners by talking about 'reducing the power of the state'.

Any state that can enforce 'civil rights for individuals' on a community that doesn't want to grant those rights to those individuals is a totalitarian state. It doesn't matter how the state is using their power 'for good', the power being used is totalitarian.

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