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Jack Rabbit

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23. It was the Libertarian Party

Reply to okaawhatever (Reply #15)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 08:11 PM

Jan 2014

The word "libertarian" is, I believe, often misused here. Yes, David Koch and his brother are Birchers more than they are libertarians.

Usually, I use the word libertarian to mean anti-authoritarian. It otherwise doesn't say much about one's ideology. Ayn Rand was a libertarian rightist, while Noam Chomsky is a libertarian leftist.

I don't really regard the Birch Society out of whose tradition the Koch brothers came to be libertarian. It really isn't authoritarian, either. That tradition is more to be described as paranoid and psychotic.

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