Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...endured an hour-long grilling. The preacher asked for Forbes' view about abortion (against), school choice (for), and the "homosexual-rights agenda" (against, but no harassment, please). "I was a doubter," says Sheldon. "The stereotype from the 1996 campaign was that Steve Forbes was clearly pro-choice and clearly libertarian." Sheldon emerged a believer. "By the time we got there," he recalls, "we were chatting away like two old cousins...
...course, not true. To say that kids drink because alcohol is a taboo is ludicrous. Kids drink for the same reason adults do: they want a buzz or intoxication. If we changed the age limit, we would not get a libertarian paradise. We would only get countless teenage alcoholics, even more than we have...
...Medicare. If permitted, 59% of Xers would opt out of Medicare and save on their own. Of any adult generation, they have the weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says Thau. "We grew up in a period with one instance of government malfeasance and ineptitude after another, from Watergate to Iran-contra to the explosion of the Challenger to Whitewater. We believe government can't be trusted to do anything right...
...definitely was a civil libertarian," she remembers. "I took a lot of grief for being a civil libertarian and a liberal because it was considered much too conservative...
...take a more libertarian view. I am also concerned about possible abuses, but I don't think that legal restrictions are either a practical or an ethical way to prevent them. On the contrary, I believe that we can only prevent such abuses by creating a society in which gays and lesbians are valued as individuals and as a group of people who make a unique contribution to society...