The methodology seems suspect to me. Seems like it would only be a certain flavor of libertarian who would be doing a survey at your morals. org , but I can still relate to a good part of the conclusions.
......................But ideology does not have to be bipolar. It need not fall on a line from conservative to liberal. In a recently published paper, Ravi Iyer from the University of Southern California, together with Dr. Haidt and other researchers at the data-collection platform YourMorals.org, dissect the personalities of those who describe themselves as libertarian.
These are people who often call themselves economically conservative but socially liberal. They like free societies as well as free markets, and they want the government to get out of the bedroom as well as the boardroom. They don't see why, in order to get a small-government president, they have to vote for somebody who is keen on military spending and religion; or to get a tolerant and compassionate society they have to vote for a large and intrusive state.
The study collated the results of 16 personality surveys and experiments completed by nearly 12,000 self-identified libertarians who visited YourMorals.org.".................
I can certainly see myself in that article. I've considered myself a libertarian for a long time, although I do have a problem with their postulate of completely free markets. Still, they are the closest thing ideologically out there for me.
Until third parties can force their way into the mainstream media I don't see them getting any sort of traction and that's too bad. I think if the libertarians and Gary Johnson could get their message out to more people the two major parties would have some formidable competition. Of course the donkeys and elephants don't want that!
The Dems & Republicans don't like that? No kidding. On another board I post on Libertarians are slammed to the point of code of conduct. In a battleground state like Colorado, I feel more a desire to choose Republican, but if I lived in Wyoming or California, Gary would get my vote for sure.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I have some diff. issues, but as it implyed if we all thought the same we would not be libertarians. We would be dems or repubs. rofllol
We tried a third party in '92. I think it is too late for another. IMO the best bet is a libertarian take over of the gop. A lot of the normal dems would come aboard the tea party if they heard something besides the wing nuts.
cydl wrote: I can certainly see myself in that article. I've considered myself a libertarian for a long time, although I do have a problem with their postulate of completely free markets. Still, they are the closest thing ideologically out there for me.
Until third parties can force their way into the mainstream media I don't see them getting any sort of traction and that's too bad. I think if the libertarians and Gary Johnson could get their message out to more people the two major parties would have some formidable competition. Of course the donkeys and elephants don't want that!
