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26. I've encountered

Reply to Fantastic Anarchist (Reply #24)

Fri May 4, 2012, 04:54 PM

May 2012

a few Paulbots and they are very persistent, often sounding like a broken record. Its almost cult-like. To some degree, they remind me of some Kucinich supporters in the last election. I know I've probably pissed a few people off by saying that, but I see a lot of similarities in the almost blind devotion and inability to listen to alternate points of view.

Until the last few years, I had always seen libertarianism more as a left-wing movement and often embraced some of their ideas. Now it is just a convenient tag to sometimes justify people's intolerance.

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