2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: CBS poll: 51% of Millennials voting either Republican or Libertarian (white women only 49%) [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)Frankly, I don't care much about pot legalization, there are much bigger problems, but yeah I think it should be legal.
But the libertarians I know, and knew, aren't really about pot. They're about "taxation is slavery" and there should be no food inspections or medical licenses or anything because "the market" will fix everything. It's a utopian fantasy.
When I was in college and libertarianism was "cool and alternative", legalizing drugs and prostitution was really an afterthought. It wasn't social liberalism driving the Ayn Rand stuff, it was Ayn Rand in the driver's seat.
Yeah, maybe the libertarians have used social liberalism to further their nutty economic ideas, but based on my personal experience (which is obviously just my own experience), it seems to me that the people going libertarian are actually into the nutty economic ideas.