# A libertarian republican goes nuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452 "2012-11-09T04:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/1 "2012-11-09T04:21:28Z")
[Eric Dondero,](http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2012/11/the-end-of-liberty-in-america-only.html?m=1) writer at [Libertarianrepublican.net](http://Libertarianrepublican.net) decides to take a personal boycott of Democrats. He will, as he’s said in his own words: > [@](#): > > However, for me, I’m choosing another rather unique path; a personal boycott, if you will. Starting early this morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings. I will do the same in person. All family and friends, even close family and friends, who I know to be Democrats are hereby dead to me. I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them. They are in short, the enemies of liberty. They deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt. > > I strongly urge all other libertarians to do the same. Are you married to someone who voted for Obama, have a girlfriend who voted ‘O’. Divorce them. Break up with them without haste. Vow not to attend family functions, Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas for example, if there will be any family members in attendance who are Democrats. > > Do you work for someone who voted for Obama? Quit your job. Co-workers who voted for Obama. Simply don’t talk to them in the workplace, unless your boss instructs you too for work-related only purposes. Have clients who voted Democrat? Call them up this morning and tell them to take their business elsewhere. > > Have a neighbor who votes for Obama? You could take a crap on their lawn. Then again, probably not a good idea since it would be technically illegal to do this. But you could have your dog take care of business. Not your fault if he just happens to choose that particular spot. > > And start your boycott of your Democrat friends and family today. Like this morning. First thing you can do, very easy, is to un-friend all Democrats from your Facebook account. I’m sure that if he actually had friends or relatives who are Democrats, knowing he’s such a super douchey maniac, the very textbook example of someone who puts politics before country or just human decency, they will be glad to not have to talk to him ever again. He’s probably the one at family gatherings pulling people aside and telling them who they should vote for, someone who brags he writes for a website and tells everyone they’re wrong on everything if they disagree with him, and probably doesn’t bring any food to the potluck but takes home all the leftovers. If I was related to him, I’d have cut him off already. Unfriending someone means nothing if you have no friends to begin with ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/2 "2012-11-09T04:28:34Z")
He has an even better set of responses. An interview he did with New York Magazine has him pondering on the worth of a Democrat and Republican child molestor: [http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/eric-dondero-boycott-democrat-libertarian.html](http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/eric-dondero-boycott-democrat-libertarian.html) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/3 "2012-11-09T04:30:18Z")
Sadly, I’m seeing more and more of this kind of thinking. On my Facebook feed, I had people circulating a letter saying, “If you plan on voting for Romney, please de-friend me” It’s stupid to put politics above family and friends. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/4 "2012-11-09T04:33:34Z")
Don’t know from Facebook. Suppose I look this guy up and “friend” him just to piss him off and make him undo that. How many times can you do that? Hey, I bet I could get a team of Dopers to tag-team this asshole. Wait, no, that’s mean, probably couldn’t get more than about fifty. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/5 "2012-11-09T04:41:18Z")
Can we put him in the first batch to go settle Mars please? See, I have a little idea. We go set up a special area on Mars. (Once we figure out how much artificial gravity we need to even be able to make the trip, much less the technicalities of spinning the craft but keeping the equipment working that is.) This special area will be sequestered. Supplies and such can go to it, but the residents there cannot leave. (Maybe with some rare exceptions made.) We’ll send Fred Phelps and his followers there, and this fellow, and others like him. We’ll sell it as they can have their own place, to run things as they want. We won’t go bother them, so long as they don’t come bother us. It’d work for a few lifetimes at least. If we are careful, it might even do better than other colonies did, penal or otherwise. Of course, I don’t see Mars as becoming heavily settled in the first place. Maybe it will in a century or two though. Honestly, reading that first part made me really sad. That’s mental illness, and I wonder if he won’t become another angry white man in a bell tower one day! ☹ :eek: ☹ If he lived in the UK he’d be heading for a lot of ASBO orders. I pity the poor police who have to come deal with him when his neighbors complain about him letting his dog crap on their lawn and not cleaning it up. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/6 "2012-11-09T04:44:29Z")
So he’d refuse business? Doesn’t sound very Republican to me. What does he think his little snit will achieve? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/7 "2012-11-09T04:50:05Z")
Classic cult control behavior. Cut off outsiders, treat them with hatred, contempt, and fear, so that anyone who can tell you how your master is deceiving, robbing, and abusing you will be ignored. The GOP is trying to be a cult. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/8 "2012-11-09T04:55:43Z")
What’s the difference between illegal and _technically_ illegal? Or is that something you have to be a libertarian t understand? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/9 "2012-11-09T04:58:54Z")
OK, I read the article, never mind, he’s just a crabby individual. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/10 "2012-11-09T05:10:05Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > What’s the difference between illegal and _technically_ illegal? Or is that something you have to be a libertarian t understand? Shitting on someone’s lawn is only _technically_ illegal because obviously it’s morally the right thing to do, and you have a _natural right_ given to you by God to shit on Democrat’s lawns… if it only weren’t for that damn, pesky law. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/11 "2012-11-09T05:10:56Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > . > > The GOP is trying to be a cult. _Trying?_ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/12 "2012-11-09T05:11:50Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Classic cult control behavior. Cut off outsiders, treat them with hatred, contempt, and fear, so that anyone who can tell you how your master is deceiving, robbing, and abusing you will be ignored. > > The GOP is trying to be a cult. > [@foolsguinea](#): > > OK, I read the article, never mind, he’s just a crabby individual. Never mind. So basically, he’s a _wannabe_ cultist. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/13 "2012-11-09T05:42:11Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Sadly, I’m seeing more and more of this kind of thinking. On my Facebook feed, I had people circulating a letter saying, “If you plan on voting for Romney, please de-friend me” I had several of those “we cannot be FB friends if you supported Romney” messages. **And they’re not Americans.** Nor am I. And I’d have voted Obama if I was. Nonetheless, I obliged them. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/14 "2012-11-09T07:04:56Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Can we put him in the first batch to go settle Mars please? I dream of being one of the first to settle mars. Please have some human decency. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/15 "2012-11-09T07:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > When my co-workers or friends try that with me I extend my full hand for a traditional handshake. I tell them sorry, but I don’t do that “Obama thing.” Why do right wingers wonder why minorities don’t vote for them, as if we are too stupid to detect their subtle racism that underlies their not-subtle racism? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/16 "2012-11-09T07:26:00Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Shitting on someone’s lawn is only _technically_ illegal because obviously it’s morally the right thing to do, and you have a _natural right_ given to you by God to shit on Democrat’s lawns… if it only weren’t for that damn, pesky law. Also known as ‘a legitimate shit’. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/17 "2012-11-09T07:47:30Z")
I like how this self-professed Libertarian is banning all Democrats from his life but apparently is okay with Republicans. So are Libertarians just a subgroup of the Republicans or are they a genuine movement that’s independent of the two big parties? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/18 "2012-11-09T08:37:13Z")
The irony is, these people who are waaaay overreacting to Obama’s reelection like it’s the end of the world now have an \*inkling \*what GWB’s reelection felt like on the other side of the aisle. Yet, you didn’t see anywhere near this kind of immaturity and divisiveness back then. And that’s not even bringing into consideration the degree of obstructionism Obama faced in his first term, which, combined with the situation he inherited, would go a looooong way to explaining any perceived failures they ascribe to him. GWB never had to face anything like that - his failures were entirely of his own making - yet, when that disaster of a presidency was extended for another four years, there STILL wasn’t this kind of divisiveness. This kind of shit sure does reveal who are true patriots, and who are just partisans. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/19 "2012-11-09T11:52:09Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > The irony is, these people who are waaaay overreacting to Obama’s reelection like it’s the end of the world now have an \*inkling \*what GWB’s reelection felt like on the other side of the aisle. Yet, you didn’t see anywhere near this kind of immaturity and divisiveness back then. Now that’s just revisionist history. While I never saw anyone threaten to commit suicide, plenty of liberals declared they were going to move to Canada or the UK, and picketed in the streets about Bush’s ‘‘fascism.’’ There were some pretty damned immature responses from liberals then. They were equally ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/20 "2012-11-09T12:01:13Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Now that’s just revisionist history. While I never saw anyone threaten to commit suicide, plenty of liberals declared they were going to move to Canada or the UK, and picketed in the streets about Bush’s ‘‘fascism.’’ There were some pretty damned immature responses from liberals then. They were equally ludicrous. Not really. Bush and his friends really were trying to eliminate as much freedom as possible and turn America into a one-party state. They failed, but that doesn’t mean that they weren’t trying and didn’t do a huge amount of damage. And then you have everything from his non-response to Katrina, to the gloating over California’s artificial “energy crisis”, to the Iraq war, and so on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452.md?page=2)