Word: libertarianism
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...began in 1992 with a big-eared little billionaire who wanted to overhaul the engine of American politics. It was a one-man show, a man and his crazies, until 1998, when Jesse Ventura showed that Reform could be a brand for fiscal conservative/social libertarian types who felt that money and obfuscation had ruined Washington. Too bad Jesse was a free-trader - Perot invited in The Pitchfork to chase out The Body, and now Buchanan is poised to chase out Perot...
...started writing for the conservative Salient and grew interested in libertarian political philosophy. While he considers sexuality to be primarily a private concern, he does recognize the fundamental, civil rights issues at stake...
There is one basic explanation for this. As the libertarian economist Friedrich von Hayek once pointed out, the bulk of information generated in any economy is local in nature. If this local information has to be processed through a centralized hier- archy--whether government ministry or even overly large corporate bureaucracy--it will inevitably be delayed, distorted and manipulated in ways that would not happen in a more decentralized economic-decision-making system. The U.S.S.R. used to have an office called the State Committee on Prices, where a few hundred bureaucrats would sit around setting every price in the Soviet...
That's right. You have a moral responsibility to get off that field, move to Washington, and campaign without pause for the less-than-sunny personality of Al Gore '69. Republican or Democrat, libertarian or Independent: it doesn't matter. Only Gore can convince those reactionary corporate pawns in the Senate to ratify the prudent Kyoto Protocol. Only Gore has written a book--a whole book!--on the subject, refreshingly entitled Earth in the Balance. Only Gore, therefore, can save civilization from the preeminent crisis now facing it, climactic Armageddon precipitated by human-driven global warming...
...Mark Salter, the writer who is nearly as close to the candidate as any of McCain's children, who delivered the good news that the Arizona Senator might be not just winning but winning huge--men and women, young and old, wild-eyed libertarian independents and bluenosed conservative Republicans...