• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    They didn’t even believe in basic moderation from an ideological perspective

    Haha. I didn't know that. There should be a name for that. For voters who ultimately end up shooting themselves in the head - it's leopard ate their face. Maybe for libertarians it could be bears ate their face.

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    In the mid-2000s in a small New Hampshire town called Grafton there was an experiment was called the "Free Town Project". It later became the "Free State Project"). The goal was simple: take over Grafton's local government and turn it into a libertarian utopia. The movement was cooked up by a small group of ragtag libertarian activists who saw in Grafton a unique opportunity to realize their dreams of a perfectly logical and perfectly market-based community.

    A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: Author Matt Hongoltz-Hetling on the Free State Project - Vox

    The Vox article is an interview with the author.