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In reply to the discussion: The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Barack Obama at DU: [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,132 posts)The reason for this is the Libertarians are stepping on their message of economic feudalism, free trade, corporate dominance, plundering the commons, education deform (Libertarian wet dream, btw), and pushing for austerity.
The thing is the Libertarians on the surface don't come with the baggage of the drug war, an overreaching surveillance state, or seeking out military adventures around the globe so opposition in those areas is enemy #1 because the folks that might be receptive to Laziez FAIL that they are comfortable with might prefer the Libertarian version that keeps down the bodybags, allows them a joint in peace, and doesn't have some fuckwads tapping the phone and reading their emails.
Tough sales pitch, I see why they would get wound up but they are the ones that embrace or at least are pretty tolerant of the actual core of the Libertarian ideology not folks who advocate for civil liberties, peace, curtailed corporate influence, progressive taxation, environmental stewardship, or support for labor.
Maybe that is making it too complicated and the screaming Libertarian is just another Overton Window maneuver to make Dick Cheney TeaPubliKlans the new moderate so the rainbow Reaganites can be left.