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safeinOhio

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22. Cato org a Libertarian think tank...

Mon Mar 11, 2019, 01:06 PM

Mar 2019

"I might begin by noting that the very notion of a conflict “between libertarians and Objectivists” is flawed, as it seems to me that all Objectivists are necessarily libertarians, though not all libertarians are Objectivists. That is, anyone who believes in individual rights, free enterprise, and strictly limited government—and I assume that includes all Objectivists—is a libertarian. An Objectivist libertarian might well not belong to any particular party and might part company with some other libertarians on a wide range of philosophical and other issues, but at the level of political philosophy Objectivists are libertarians."
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/objectivis
ts-libertarians

Allan Greenspan, Chicago Boys, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul and his father are all Libertarians that have also aligned with Objectivists. It is a republican party move to limit voting, and not a Democratic Party policy..

I might be wrong in lumping the two together.

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