2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Liberals aren't Democrats? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Issues like:
- rights to privacy
- stopping the war on drugs and many other consensual activity victimless "crimes".
- avoiding going to war when possible.
I think there are ways to work WITH them on those issues, and to have similar stances to Libertarians (like Snowden on our rights to privacy), and still be strong liberals, despite some people's attempts to smear more progressive elements of the Democratic Party with our similar stances on issues such as these.
But I will fight HARD those like Rand Paul to privatize so much that they do, some closet racism that he and his father have, and other areas where they don't share our values. I do feel that there are too many problems that Libertarians have, that I still can't vote for them in political office races. Now, perhaps an interesting thing might be for a progressive president if we get one elected, putting a Libertarian in charge of a cabinet position that is dedicated on one of the above issues where we share values with, to help open our tent and actually bring in young people that have been lead to join with other Libertarians on the above issues, but aren't aware of the other areas that Libertarians are probably not having an agenda that coincides with theirs.