Ignore the 3rd Way shills with extreme prejudice

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207. Some people confuse standing up for rights of privacy from the NSA as being "Randian"...

... just because we get thrown out the line that Glen Greenwald and Edward Snowden are libertarians...

There are things that we as TRADITIONAL Democrats have in common with the Libertarian party, which are things like:
- Believing that the "war on drugs" (particularly marijuana) has failed just as badly as alcohol prohibition failed in its day, and needs to be replaced with regulation and medical treatment rather than carting off many minorities and other oppressed members off to private prisons that feed the prison industrial complex that probably also bankrolls the third way and Republicans in general.
- Staying out of foreign wars as much as possible and not let the military industrial complex be pushing us in to them.
- Protecting our rights of privacy in cyberspace from domestic spying, etc.
- a bit more freedom for people not to have the state monitor and penalize their consensual sexual activities that don't present a health risk to us.

Now, if we have much more in common than that list, it's not very much. I certainly don't like what Libertarians have stood for in terms of regulation of the corporate sector, taxation, and a number of other parts of their agenda which in many respects are worse than the rest of the Republicans. But if we work together on traditional stances (that sometimes third wayers have a hard time understanding why we support this above list), we can maybe get some of these issues dealt with the coming two years AND split apart the Republican Party, AND hurt many of the 1%ers and Republicans agendas in these areas.

If you like domestic spying on us, like prohibition of drugs, like having more wars, etc. then I would submit that you are a bit confused as to what traditional Democratic values are.