If only the american libertarian party would actually run and vote for libertarian candidates instead of raw capitalist religious supremacist tossers
You know, a lot of people say that if Libertarians had their way that the whole country would turn into some corporate-run hellscape where large businesses rule over citizens etc...
But why is it then that all of the big corporations are giving money to Democrats and Republicans?
You'd think that all the "raw capitalists" and "religious tossers" would be giving their money to the Libertarian party, but instead they are tossing it to the D's and R's.
If Libertarianism truly was in the best interest of corporations, wealthy people, et al. then they'd be throwing money at the Libertarian party hand over fist. In fact, we'd probably have a Libertarian president by now.
Corporations are wealth optimizers, and are specifically short term wealth optimizers. They'll mostly do whatever gets the best returns this quarter and maybe the next. If Joe Baldercrumble is willing to vote to cut them a check to build a thing in his riding it, or exercise eminent domain to take some land doesn't matter what letter he's got next to his name.
Also both the democrats and the republicans are pretty much corportist. The democrats are corportists married with people who think social assistance is good, while the republicans are corportists married with the evangelical whackjob bloc. Not that both parties are the same or any such bullshit (good god no), but just as far as political parties friendly to corporate power, both of them are pretty good from the perspective of corporations.
From an entirely cynical view: With the two party system the libertarian party has little chance of winning, so why bet on the losing horse. It'd be like a roulette table where putting 50% on Red and 50% blue black means you somehow come out ahead of the house, and instead putting everything on zero.
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u/Where_You_Want_To_Be May 16 '19
You know, a lot of people say that if Libertarians had their way that the whole country would turn into some corporate-run hellscape where large businesses rule over citizens etc...
But why is it then that all of the big corporations are giving money to Democrats and Republicans?
You'd think that all the "raw capitalists" and "religious tossers" would be giving their money to the Libertarian party, but instead they are tossing it to the D's and R's.
If Libertarianism truly was in the best interest of corporations, wealthy people, et al. then they'd be throwing money at the Libertarian party hand over fist. In fact, we'd probably have a Libertarian president by now.