Tell me what the appeal is about the Libertarian Party

[ricepad]

I’ve only known half a dozen or so Libertarians, but the commonality seems to be that I would call all of them ‘pseudo intellectuals’. They’re all a lot dumber than they think they are, and WAY dumber than they try to project.

[Llama_Llogophile]

@Mighty_Mouse

There were a whole bunch of people in my social and professional circle who went from middle of the road to committed Republicans during the first few months of Obama’s presidency. They were all white males, 40-60, mostly union members. Until 2008, I hardly knew a union member who openly supported the Republicans.

The 2009 inauguration watch party in our cafeteria was eye opening. The group that gathered was almost entirely women and/or people of color. This is a workplace that was majority white male. Lots of muttering on the shop floor about why the election was illegitimate and Obama was a Manchurian candidate and not a natural born citizen.

I’m sure this has nothing to do with him being black.

My bolding.

It’s difficult not to imagine this being the case for a lot of people. I can’t see how to account for all the blustering, red-in-the-face nonsense we saw from the Tea Party without it being largely a racist response. How many of those people were previously Libertarian is harder to say. Whatever it was, we find ourselves today with many people in power from that bloc.