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To: TimF who wrote (93853)	1/5/2005 3:30:29 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793725

The article doesn't really make the case that the Republicans are hostile to freedom, it starts with that assumption and uses it to argue that libertarians should ally with the Dems. I imagine you have to follow the guy over a period of time to see what assumptions he's making and what he may have demonstrated upstream. I haven't been following it, just looked in from time to time. I posted that because I think it's a different and interesting idea. Even if he's making an assumption, I think that one can easily recognize that the libertarians have lost influence in the party to the social conservatives and that must be very frustrating and hopeless to a serious libertarian, thus the hyperbole. As for which side is more dangerous to freedom, it's a toss-up, IMO. This is not a good time in recent US history to be libertarian. I think it's reasonable to argue, as you suggest, that there's a better chance of moving the Dems in a libertarian direction at this point in time than the Reps. There is too much social conservative momentum right now in the GOP to change course. The Dems don't have any momentum so it might be possible to get something going there. Not likely, but there's a crack.

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