I considered myself libertarian since I was in high school, in the early 2000's. I hung out with leftist cliques like punks and what not. Everyone assumed I was a fellow lefty because I would say "I dislike the government." Since they weren't openly spewing socialist and commie bs I never felt like I needed to say much more about my beliefs. I had a very live and let live attitude. On the rare occasions I would talk about my views on gun control or mention I'm going to the range I'd get some odd looks but no one really said anything. It was a very different time.
Sometime during Obama's presidency things changed. People would react oddly at the things I had always said offhand. It became apparent I was not going along with the party line and I was an outsider. Saying I did not like the government suddenly became racist. "You don't like Obama because he is black?!" was the usual response.
So I did the typical Libertarian thing and just stopped talking. I should have known better. I didn't want to make waves and thought "live and let live, this will blow over." Then the whole gamergate thing.
I was pretty up to their noise by then. Only a few people actually mentioned it to me but seeing the response by media made me certain that this was a war. And then I'm reading Rules for Radicals and The Gulag Archipelago
It only got worse. I'm still a libertarian but I really don't like the way the national party went. I don't want to give TheImp ammo but things went bad after Jess Mears got on. She used to host national party calls, like actual party calls, with some great guests, but stopped that when she moved up north.
I considered myself libertarian since I was in high school, in the early 2000's. I hung out with leftist cliques like punks and what not. Everyone assumed I was a fellow lefty because I would say "I dislike the government." Since they weren't openly spewing socialist and commie bs I never felt like I needed to say much more about my beliefs. I had a very live and let live attitude. On the rare occasions I would talk about my views on gun control or mention I'm going to the range I'd get some odd looks but no one really said anything. It was a very different time.
Sometime during Obama's presidency things changed. People would react oddly at the things I had always said offhand. It became apparent I was not going along with the party line and I was an outsider. Saying I did not like the government suddenly became racist. "You don't like Obama because he is black?!" was the usual response.
So I did the typical Libertarian thing and just stopped talking. I should have known better. I didn't want to make waves and thought "live and let live, this will blow over." Then the whole gamergate thing.
I was pretty up to their noise by then. Only a few people actually mentioned it to me but seeing the response by media made me certain that this was a war. And then I'm reading Rules for Radicals and The Gulag Archipelago
It only got worse. I'm still a libertarian but I really don't like the way the national party went. I don't want to give TheImp ammo but things went bad after Jess Mears got on. She used to host national party calls, like actual party calls, with some great guests, but stopped that when she moved up north.
DLDR: Vote local, become ungovernable, dig holes.