[lbo-talk] How to explain things to (right-wing) libertarians

[Joseph Catron]

I'm not as anti-electoral as I once was - in fact, I worked for a leftist
third party until recently - but what people do in a voting booth every two
or four years is the least of my concerns when it comes to evaluating their
political potential. I'm thinking of an old friend of mine, a rural
Virginian and honest-to-God paleoconservative, who voted for George Bush and
George Allen because of abortion and gay marriage.

He's also a steward in his union, the Virginia Education Association, and
from what I hear, a damned good one. I'll take another one of him over a
dozen Democratic voters who sit in hipster coffeehouses and mutter epithets
about the white working class and their church-going, pickup-driving ways.
(Not that most, or even many, Democratic voters are like that, but in
Brooklyn, I meet more than my share.)

On 3/29/07, John Costello <joxn.costello at gmail.com> wrote:

I have to say that in my experience, libertarians are "on our side"
> until they have to vote.  And then they vote Republican, because
> anti-facist, anti-militarist, anti-interventionist, and pro-choice
> sentiments always, always lose to the promise of lower taxes and less
> government.
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