tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788868408693854043.post37344695385705198..comments2024-03-18T06:45:48.932-04:00Comments on Berman Post: Is The Tea Party Libertarian?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788868408693854043.post-70537947466033346902012-05-07T22:55:20.636-04:002012-05-07T22:55:20.636-04:00We live in an irrational age. The partisan brands ...We live in an irrational age. The partisan brands "conservative" and "liberal" continually swap positions. Hegel used the term "sublation" to described terms turning into their opposite. <br /><br />Since none of the labels makes any sense, these attempts to put a label on the Tea Party keep failing. Tea Partiers tend to self-describe themselves as "conservative" and fail to grasp that the "RINOs" they despise are closer to the mainstream concept of "conservatism" and they are closer to the libertarian view. <br /><br />I wish the Tea Party took more time to define what it was before it took on the label "conservative." The ideas that were starting to incubate in the Tea Party were far stronger than the ideas of mainstream political discourse. By jumping on the partisan wagon too soon, the ideas never reached fruition.Kevin Delaneyhttp://yintercept.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788868408693854043.post-7625102584898475072010-10-18T10:19:38.923-04:002010-10-18T10:19:38.923-04:00Nice clarification of the tea party positioning re...Nice clarification of the tea party positioning relative to the established political poles. <br /><br />What I think is missing is recognition of the idea that a prosperous economy essential element of liberty, freedom, and the both the Conservative and Liberal platforms. If you're a liberal and you want to expand the social welfare state, you need for there to be a live body to suck the blood out of. If you're a conservative and you want to have a strong military and business climate, you need to have live body with the ability to invent and consume. When you reduce the population to a hand to mouth struggle to survive it all goes away. The people loose their ability to enjoy the blessings of liberty, and the big-2 parties loose the ability to advance their agendas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com