Spotting the Liberty Mimic
Liberty mimics aren't that hard to spot. The first thing to look for is the urge to "get along" aka surrender your principles. Then watch out for an embracing of socialist property theory. Finally they will push a Great Man who will bend the State to fix the State.
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I've come to believe many of these people were never freedom lovers to begin with. A lot of the Ron Paul people just jumped on his bandwagon because he was "anti-establishment", so of course they go to the next big thing which is the "alt-right". And the rest of them felt discouraged with the futility of political libertarianism so they also jumped off the principled view.
More proof that even Ron Paul cannot serve as a Great Men to deliver liberty through politics. Those who found liberty through his campaign were those already looking for it, and would have found it anyway. The bandwagon libertarians aren't with us, because liberty is never a bandwagon philosophy.
Good points. I honestly wonder how the #altright fits into the schema. One thing I noticed about them: they all got into libertarianism when it was kewl due to Ron Paul. Then to Hoppe, then to the dissident right, and now they's enthusing about the "Ethnostate" McGuffin.
The "alt right" is a perfect example of people trying to disguise tyranny with a poorly applied veneer of liberty rhetoric.