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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by Apocryphon on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:14PM (#12131202)
In addition to the sibling comments, there's also the critique of libertarianism as inherently being for those who have "made it." As it, it is easier to agitate for less government regulation and no social welfare net, if one does not benefit from such. And so libertarianism becomes a cover for protecting one's status of privilege. Thus, a shift to "traditional" conservatism which protects that privilege, as typified by nationalism, would be natural for a disgruntled libertarian.

This is one critique that has been made and is of course debatable. It's important to not simply evaluate a political ideology by its tenets, but also the demographics of its supporters, to understand the "culture" that grows around a belief system. We often do the same to religions, after all.

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by fweespeech on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:37PM (#12131825)
> In addition to the sibling comments, there's also the critique of libertarianism as inherently being for those who have "made it." As it, it is easier to agitate for less government regulation and no social welfare net, if one does not benefit from such. And so libertarianism becomes a cover for protecting one's status of privilege. Thus, a shift to "traditional" conservatism which protects that privilege, as typified by nationalism, would be natural for a disgruntled libertarian.

Yeah, but its a product of the right/authoritarian side of the libertarians.

The left-leaning libertarians who tactically vote Democrat are fine with safety nets:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/7/17/1314751/-13-Tenets-o...

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by Apocryphon on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:01PM (#12140041)
I'm not sure if they're right in the sense of authoritarian (though certainly the more authoritarian ones make it easier to jump to libertarian). I would think they're right in the sense of being more in favor of unfettered corporate power. Anarcho-capitalism.
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