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Originally Posted by Errigal
As for Ron Paul's Libertarianism, I agree. One of the key reasons America has such a strong Libertarian streak is that citizens of America who come from Ron Paul's social class look around at the underclass of poor Whites, African-Americans and Mexican-Americans and quite reasonably decide they don't want to share a government with them. Because the ocean of 300 million Americans don't particularly like or trust each other, the small government Libertarianism and states-rights platform of Ron Paul appears to be the only workable solution. I would agree but I would not recommend American Libertarianism for any other state than the United States. I think the nations of Europe, and New World states like Australia and Canada, can do better.
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This libertarianism advocated by Ron Paul, Llewelyn Rockwell and similar kind of people might be - at least as far as I was able to grasp it - something completely different from the now ruling Liberal Capitalism, which in fact consists of the oligopole of several big corporations. Those big corporations suffocate small businesses, which cannot stand the stiff regulations imposed by the government, which is - in turn - influenced by the corporations themselves to issue such regulations. Libertarians a la Lew Rockwell favour loosening of all those possible regulations, less government, so that small businesses in small communities could prosper. As far as I could understand them, and I am not sure if I understood them correctly.
Maybe it is good system for America after all.