I agree with you entirely, and it doesn't help for their ideology that America itself is all about individualism with our culture and society through capitalism.
I quit keeping up with Libertarianism around 2014. I gave up on it entirely around 2013 and started venturing into Marxism. To many of us though, like I can relate in a way from being in high school and seeing young people who it appealed to. I grew up in Alabama and the Mises institute is in Auburn.
I can tell you from living there, Alabama pretty much is a Libertarian's wet dream in terms of law. There are little to no unions there. It was one of the first states to enact anti-union laws in the 1960s under the guise of 'Right To Work'. Republicans have run it into the ground and in the early 2010s, AL was one of the few states run by the GOP who decided not to expand medicaid or any other benefits. It don't help that the Dems here are cowards and don't even bother campaigning outside the big cities they have control over, so it's pretty much a Libertarian hell hole with how the state GOP have transformed.
I could never be a liberal cause growing up in a deep red southern state, the smugness that liberals have towards working class people down here like me, always turned me off. There is a reason why southerners do not want to listen to their BS. Libs can't help but so condescendingly talk down to us, much like how they talk down to minorities. I listened to the Libertarian stuff when I was in my teens and early 20s trying to find something out of it, but all it did was leave me confused but it helped set me on the path to Marxism. After hearing them talk all this conspiracy nonsense about communism, I wanted to sit down and start reading Marx and it opened new doorways for me in terms of philosophy.
One of the biggest appeals of Libertarian stuff from the late 2000s was how it was anti-government and seen as something against the ruling class and status quo. There is some serious populism in the rural south cause the people there legitimately feel forgotten by the federal government. It would be a breeding ground for a real Marxist movement because the Dems have long abandoned those states and allowed the GOP to use them as a playground for whatever they want. When Sanders started his campaign last year, he did some speeches in Alabama and got positive reception. Sanders isn't a radical leftist, I know, but it still goes to show, the people here want something different, and it's unfortunate that all we got back then was Libertarian propaganda aimed at us.
I agree with you entirely, and it doesn't help for their ideology that America itself is all about individualism with our culture and society through capitalism.
I quit keeping up with Libertarianism around 2014. I gave up on it entirely around 2013 and started venturing into Marxism. To many of us though, like I can relate in a way from being in high school and seeing young people who it appealed to. I grew up in Alabama and the Mises institute is in Auburn.
I can tell you from living there, Alabama pretty much is a Libertarian's wet dream in terms of law. There are little to no unions there. It was one of the first states to enact anti-union laws in the 1960s under the guise of 'Right To Work'. Republicans have run it into the ground and in the early 2010s, AL was one of the few states run by the GOP who decided not to expand medicaid or any other benefits. It don't help that the Dems here are cowards and don't even bother campaigning outside the big cities they have control over, so it's pretty much a Libertarian hell hole with how the state GOP have transformed.
I could never be a liberal cause growing up in a deep red southern state, the smugness that liberals have towards working class people down here like me, always turned me off. There is a reason why southerners do not want to listen to their BS. Libs can't help but so condescendingly talk down to us, much like how they talk down to minorities. I listened to the Libertarian stuff when I was in my teens and early 20s trying to find something out of it, but all it did was leave me confused but it helped set me on the path to Marxism. After hearing them talk all this conspiracy nonsense about communism, I wanted to sit down and start reading Marx and it opened new doorways for me in terms of philosophy.
One of the biggest appeals of Libertarian stuff from the late 2000s was how it was anti-government and seen as something against the ruling class and status quo. There is some serious populism in the rural south cause the people there legitimately feel forgotten by the federal government. It would be a breeding ground for a real Marxist movement because the Dems have long abandoned those states and allowed the GOP to use them as a playground for whatever they want. When Sanders started his campaign last year, he did some speeches in Alabama and got positive reception. Sanders isn't a radical leftist, I know, but it still goes to show, the people here want something different, and it's unfortunate that all we got back then was Libertarian propaganda aimed at us.