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Has the Republican party become the party of Anarchy?
The extremists are calling for no government at at all, casting it as the enemy of progress. They call themselves Libertarians but are actually Anarchists. Granted there are Conservatives who disagree, but they are being isolated and driven out through the primary process.
The extremists in the Democratic party are Socialists who know that the Liberals must move in the direction they want before they have any chance of success, but is it also fair to say that the Republicans are equally the party of Anarchy?
We can dismiss the Anarchists who supported occupy the same way we can dismiss the Medicare fans who support the Tea Party. Neither group understands what they are doing. Look at the ideologues behind the movements and tell me what you think.
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- SevenLv 47 years agoFavorite Answer
Very commonly rationality and deep belief do NOT go together ... particularly in the form of ideology.
Once developed, deep belief, strongly held ideologies, often influence perception, emotions and cognitive processing. The ideologist often "sees what I want to see, hear what I want to hear, think what I want to think and that is the final TRUTH."
Where do they come from? All human realities are products of ongoing socialization. We all learn everything we know and believe from our external environments. They have been taught to be libertarians and/or anarchists. The question is, of course, who is providing that information? Currently, many tea partiers, some Republicans, the John Birch Society, members of some fundamentalist, evangelical, DOMINIONIST "religious groups," too, paradoxically ... that's a start.
Source(s): Basic social science - SocratesLv 77 years ago
The people you listen to for your information on Libertarianism, have no clue what they are talking about. American Libertarianism is set squarely in Constitutionalism. They don't want little or no government (Anarchy), they want limited government. There is a big difference. Limited government means that the power of the federal government is limited to the powers given to it by the Constitution. The "shrinking" of government stops there. All this means that, besides the specific powers given to it by the Constitution, the proper role of the federal government is limited to protecting the rights and liberties of it's citizens.
Now, there are versions of Libertarianism that look to Anarchy, but they don't have much of a following and they are not the views of American Libertarianism. Now, what else are the people that give you your information of Libertarianism, misleading you about?
- TicToc....Lv 77 years ago
If your calling the tea party the extremist then you couldn't be more wrong. The lawlessness is 0bama acting as if he was a king and not the right calling for government to respect the constitution and our constitutional rights.
