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- From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
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- Subject: Re: Hey! Libertarians only got 37,000 votes
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 23:22:53 GMT
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- In article <BxAw5M.Dnv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales) writes:
- |>The title says it all. Perot got 14 million, Lullani F???ani got
- |>19,000, the Peace and Freedom people got some 10,000. Clearly
- |>Libertarians are a lunatic fringe....
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- |Where do you get your figures. (I'm not, at present, disputing them...
- |it is just that I would like to see them.)
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- The San Fransisco Chronicle! However, many have alreayd pointed out
- that the number was around 250,000, or .25% of the vote. This is still
- pretty bad: much worse than 1988 or the high of 1980 (?) when I think
- you got to a million, although this could be just Marreau fantasy.
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- |Note well that truth is not a majoritarian issue. Indeed, the
- |inference 'Many people believe X is false --> X is false' is
- |clearly invalid. It is the truth (or falsity) of libertarian ideas which must
- |be debated, not the popularity.
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- No, since the objection that libertarians have to other ideologies is
- that they may work in theory, but in reality it "leads to" socialism
- and so on. If people don't believe in a politcal theory then it denies
- that theory is a practical alternative, and hence Libertarianism is
- neither practical or theoretically sound.
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- "There is nothing in the marginal conditions that
- distinguish a mountain from a mole hill"
- Kenneth Boulding
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- All comments are mine---(David Wright)
- david@cats.ucsc.edu.
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