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Politics is a game of perception and coalition building, and let’s be honest: libertarians struggle with both of these concepts. For decades, the libertarian movement has allowed others to drive their narrative and often failed to make meaningful coalitions with individuals who could help pass significant policy reforms. In the interest of ideological purity, libertarians have rejected working with Republicans or Democrats – and chided those who have – out of the fear of compromise that the political process necessitates. That is all fine and good.Recently, however, many within libertarian circles, including anarcho-capitalists, have become sympathetic to another movement: the alt-right. For whatever reason, the rules that normally apply to political alliances have been thrown out the window, and “lovers of liberty” flock by the dozens to figures such as Milo Yiannopoulus, a person whose message is un-libertarian at its core.The alt-right is difficult to pin down. It is an amorphous group that breeds in online chat-rooms, where they stoke the flames of political discontent with their witty and often mean-spirited memes. Political correctness is their enemy, and the movement will stop at nothing to annihilate the the social constructs imposed upon them by the left. In terms of policy, alt-rightists are often populist in tone, opposing all illegal immigration and most forms of legal migration.Minorities and women are the prime targets of their trolling, and the movement has only gotten stronger since Donald J. Trump became the Republican presidential nominee. Trump’s policies echo their neo-reactionary worldview, while outlets such as Breitbart News feed them a steady diet of confirmation bias.Read more: http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/libertarians-cut-ties-alt-right/#ixzz4K9qOy800Follow us: @TheLibRepublic on Twitter
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Topic: Libertarians Must Cut All Ties with the Alt-Right Movement (Read 361 times)
