Honestly, the number of people voting for Rand Paul worries and disappoints me.
One of these days, I need to get one of you guys to explain the whole libertarianism thing to me.
In the broad sense, it is a wide-ranging and deep skepticism about government power, and a commitment to allowing people to make a wide range of decisions in their lives, with no division in liberty as it relates to "social" or "economic" issues.
In the narrower sense, it is the belief in a non-aggression principle that limits government action except for strictly defensive purposes, with all coercion understood as immoral.
I voted Dreher here - even realizing he wouldn't want the job if he won. Though I have some disagreements with him, he's generally a pretty thoughtful and interesting person.
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