Monday, May 30, 2016

WHO GETS THE LIBERTARIAN VOTE?

My take is that the Libertarian Party will mainly take votes from Hillary Clinton.

The reason is that Republicans are not social libertarians, far from it.  They want to control what we can or can't do in our bedrooms and really want men to control women's lives.  They also seem to want to return to the days of Jim Crow for African Americans.  Furthermore, Republicans have become a religious party and want to use religion to be free to discriminate against various people.  So I can't see them going libertarian.

Democrats, however, are close to being social libertarians, and I think the idea of fiscal responsibility is not offensive to them.  So Democrats are closer to being libertarians though the Democrats value of regulations on industry is probably offensive to Libertarians.  On the other hand, Democrats seem to be against free trade.

The above said, Libertarians have tended to side with the Republican Party (e.g. Ron and Rand Paul, etc.) perhaps because of the Republican ideal of small government in spite of being socially regressive.  I am unsure just how many Libertarians are in the Republican Party, but certainly not a controlling number.  Still they are the wild card in this current political mess because I can't see a Libertarian being at ease with the Republican social repressions.

Like Republicans, Libertarians are anti-labor in that they actually favor the wealthy by giving them free reign whereas Democrats are pro-labor and want some control over the influence of the wealthy.  The reason, however, that so many white laborers are Republicans is that they think the Democrats over-favor women, minorities, and homosexuals.  Their hope is that the Republicans will keep "them" in their place.  Republicans have convinced labor to disarm and reject unions with the result that their incomes have declined for over several decades.  The Golden Age of American labor is over, and I don't see either party having a solution to this decline.

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