Good questions Keith. Part of it may be where you live and a large part of it is our lazy American media. Paleos and Neos tend to live in southern states and are often former Republicans. Problem is - few really completely leave the GOP. They are LINO's (Libertarians in Name Only) and they are a very loud bunch of know-it-alls who trash liberals nonstop but make excuses for conservatives without end. Trouble is, when pushed to define the underlying concept of libertarianism - they can't or won't. When asked to help fight things like the PATRIOT Act, domestic surveillance, imperialism, electoral fraud, etc. they are completely AWOL.
Another part of the problem is our useless, lazy Mainstream Media that compartmentalizes and oversimplifies everything. Political terminiologies have lost most of their meaning in recent years due to such laziness. Every Democrat is a liberal and every Republican a conservative and all libertarians are wingnuts. Case in point: Dennis Miller, Larry Elder and Neil Boortz. Neither of whom are genuine libertarians - especially Boortz and Miller who turned into raging neo-conservatives on September 11, 2001. All three are conservatives with SOME extremely limited libertarian leanings. Of course, that doesn't stop our lazy MSM from constantly labeling them as such. Hell, this is the same MSM that refers to Shakira as the "latin Madonna." The MSM that ignored the piles and piles and piles of evidence that pointed out Colin Powell's lies in front of Congress and the U.N. during the buildup to the Iraq war. The same MSM that thinks only young, white (sometimes pregnant) women going missing in this country. The MSM barely acknowledges differences within the Democratic and Republican Parties either. When is the last time you heard a Democrat referred to as a Yellow Dog, Blue Dog or Progressive - other than on the ridiculous Sunday morning talk shows? All Democrats are liberals on TV and in general print media. Is Joseph Lieberman really a liberal? What about Ben Nelson? How much TV time do moderates like Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe get compared to Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell? In the eyes of the MSM all Republicans are conservatives who support Bush and love the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - which MSM hype helped create and prolong. Sorry, I went off in left field for a while. Did I even come close to answering your questions? __________________________________________________________________ James Landrith [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 703-593-2065 * fax: 760-875-8547 AIM: jlnales * ICQ: 148600159 MSN and Yahoo! Messenger: jlandrith http://www.linkedin.com/in/jlandrith http://www.jameslandrith.com http://www.multiracial.com http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/ __________________________________________________________________ > good points, James. And thanks for keeping me honest and accurate. I > should have more specifically specified that it's one type of Libertarian > that bothers me, which is what I meant by the ones I've encountered here > in Georgia. > > Still, to be frank, despite my knowing that there are more liberal > Libertarians--just like there are in many other groups--my exposure has > been more to the Ron Paul type, both in person, and in those Libertarians > I've heard on TV and the radio. > > Why do you think it is I hear so few with attitudes like you? Is it where > I live? >
