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Why Libertarians Should Vote for Liberals

This was exactly my thinking before the market meltdown: No libertarian can hope to see the party of torture, denials of habeas corpus, indefinite detention without trial, and boundless unsupervised executive power returned to office. If our core root liberalism, if our roots in the struggles of common law against absolutist king or in John Locke or in Montesquieu or in the American Revolution mean anything at all, then it means a four percentage-point difference in marginal income tax rates is less important than removing the party of torture and detention without trial from power More here (via Gowder). I have only watched two elections closely.  The first was the '94 Election.  I never wanted anyone to lose so badly as I wanted Democrats to lose (due to their gun-control laws)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).