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In reply to the discussion: I’ll just say it!!! If you’re a Republican you’re a racist!!! [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)It's ideological. While they agree on a few things, the differences might seem to outsiders like angels on top of pins.
Libertarians tend to be more broad based, and socially liberal, such as end of war on drugs this was a major point of difference with the birch counter protest of Ron Paul's rally in 2012. You can never, ever legalize pot, it is a communist conspiracy to make the country go red. That is a paraphrase from asking them why they were opposed to Ron Paul. Oh and Birchers believe we need to defend Israel while Libertarians believe we need to bring all troops home and get out of alliances.
End the Fed, they are on the same page, bring back the gold standard, Yeepers...but stopping them dang commies is big with Birchers, not so much with Libertarians. It's enough to keep them very much apart. The T Party types will find differences from the other two, not to ally with them. So we will have the Bircher, libertarian, T Party and republican table, on the other side...the Democrats are hardly that splintered.