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I am also a libertarian in general. I won't adhere to the party because I may disagree with them on some issues. However, I am registered as a republican so I can vote in the primaries. In addition, the Libertarian party is incredibly unorganized in my state and stands no chance of being a third party alternative.
 
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My husband believes as you do. We're registered republicans but we probably vote more libertarian than anything.
 
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Illegals flooding the country isn't an issue if you greatly expand legal immigration (which is what you are criticizing).

Without a massive social welfare state, people coming in to pay taxes and participate in our society is not really an issue at all. In fact this country has benefited greatly by being a land where hard working people could go to make it, and we are pretty much all immigrants here excluding native Americans.

Why do you think you are entitled to more rights than people who were born in other countries who want to come here to work? Does this country have a duty to make sure you don't have to compete with Mexicans for legitimate employment? The main problem of illegal immigration is that it causes people from other countries to be forced into a black labor market, with no regulation or protection, that no American can compete with.

You and many others need to realize that you DO compete with people in third world countries all the time for jobs, whether you like it or not, and having people come here to work would make America more competitive.
 
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Gotcha, sign me up. Consider yourself honored, it's only the second time i've ever enlisted in anything.

Party member since 1988, voted for Ron Paul before it was fashionable.
 
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Members who chose to participate in this safe house should identify with the Political party of this safe house. Fellowship posts from all members are welcome.

Hm, didn't see that before. What if I identify with libertarian principles but not the Libertarian Party?
 
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Hm, didn't see that before. What if I identify with libertarian principles but not the Libertarian Party?

Then you are probably like me. I'm not sure I can really throw my name in with the party really, but they agree with me on most things.
 
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Hello, everyone. I'm basically libertarian in the American sense, but I don't call myself that for the same reason some libertarians don't call themselves anarchists: it's full of crazies, cranks and poseurs. I can't stand the Libertarian Party, or the tea party, or any of this policy-wonking that goes on at the Cato Institute. I guess I would be closest to the people at the Mises institute.
 
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I guess I would be closest to the people at the Mises institute.

That would make you an "Austro-libertarian".

I usually don't like political labels either, but with some qualification they can work. For example I can say "I'm a libertarian in the Rothbard-Konkin tradition", and right of the bat it distinguishes me from the "cranks and poseurs" (though I don't know about the crazies, since Rothbard and Konkin were market anarchists, and so obviously they had to be crazy).

But seriously though, it also avoids all the paranoid and ignorant assumptions that people would make if I simply called myself a market anarchist.
 
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