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<blockquote data-quote="Creech" data-source="post: 65056748" data-attributes="member: 305607"><p>"Conservatives do not have libertarian roots. I keep hearing rhetoric about 'conservatives returning to their libertarian roots' and it makes no sense. Libertarianism is a different thing entirely. Conservatives (or the Right-wing) were the supporters of traditional society in the French Revolution. They favoured the monarchy, inequality, the church and traditional life. The Left-wing was made up of proto-communists, socialists and libertarians. They all sat on the Left side of the National Assembly while traditionalists sat on the Right side - hence the terminology. Classical Liberalism is what libertarianism came from. And as the name indicates, it is not a Right-wing ideology. It's an ideology of the Left. Of course, in the US system the so-called 'Right' has always been largely made up of Classical Liberals (like Thomas Jefferson), meaning that the 'Right' in the USA system is really just a centre-Left movement. The USA has always been a centre-Left society that has continually moved further and further to the Left. The USA doesn't have a Right-wing movement because it is a Leftist experiment in combining different peoples and cultures under the same central government. The only real Right in the USA comes from the traditional South. And it is rejected by the system." - Michael Cushman</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creech, post: 65056748, member: 305607"] "Conservatives do not have libertarian roots. I keep hearing rhetoric about 'conservatives returning to their libertarian roots' and it makes no sense. Libertarianism is a different thing entirely. Conservatives (or the Right-wing) were the supporters of traditional society in the French Revolution. They favoured the monarchy, inequality, the church and traditional life. The Left-wing was made up of proto-communists, socialists and libertarians. They all sat on the Left side of the National Assembly while traditionalists sat on the Right side - hence the terminology. Classical Liberalism is what libertarianism came from. And as the name indicates, it is not a Right-wing ideology. It's an ideology of the Left. Of course, in the US system the so-called 'Right' has always been largely made up of Classical Liberals (like Thomas Jefferson), meaning that the 'Right' in the USA system is really just a centre-Left movement. The USA has always been a centre-Left society that has continually moved further and further to the Left. The USA doesn't have a Right-wing movement because it is a Leftist experiment in combining different peoples and cultures under the same central government. The only real Right in the USA comes from the traditional South. And it is rejected by the system." - Michael Cushman [/QUOTE]
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