Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clark, the Libertarian candidate, has run his party's most successful campaign to date, gathering much media attention and focusing his efforts enough that he may be able to finish second in one or two states...
Saying he represents "a new perspective in American politics," Libertarian presidential candidate Ed Clark last night stressed the need for massive cuts in taxes, spending and the size of the federal budget, and for the adoption of a non-interventionist foreign policy...
...Libertarian party represents the radical individual rights tradition of Western Liberalism, a point of view that has been dead in American politics for 50 years." Clark said, adding that the changes he advocates are based on the preservation, maintenance and increase of individual liberties...
...addition to his stands on economic and foreign policy issues, Clark reiterated Libertarian party opposition to the draft, big government, government interference in the free market in the form of subsidies and regulation...
...There are, of course, the unwinnable arguments. Chief among them is the libertarian notion that self-interest is at the root of all actions, and, for example, working for other people's happiness can be explained away solely as an effort to assuage your conscience. You will not win this stage of the quarrel. Libertarians, many of them, wear dollar signs on their ties. They read Ayn Rand, and think happiness is this valley where everybody makes profits--unless they're unfit and hence lose money. Don't bother calling them bloodless assholes, because they think that being bloodless...