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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I never understood why libertarians even exist in the first place. Then again, you hardly see them here on the continent.

[–]socksuckersocks_sucks 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I neither. Liberetardianism is my least favourite ideology alongside anarchism and progressivism, which for me constitute a sort of 'triangle' of the most dangerous and ignorant ideologies.

Thankfully, it's also a fringe ideology outside of America. Practically no Hispanic country bar Costa Rica has a political movement that identifies with it, and in that exceptional case they since became conservatives in practice. Similarly, it has no presence in Africa except in a minor South African "Capitalist" party who have a libertarian platform in practice. Support base mostly White and Indian.

Generally, it seems to only have White adherents (e.g. Germany's FDP or Australia's Liberal Democrats as better examples of parties that are rather libertarian in practice). It's just like the Green 'progressives' - outside of Brazil and a select few others, it is very difficult to find these people outside of the West (but they increasingly plague France, Germany and Australia, in Canada they seem more of a fringe personality cult party big on conspiracy theories).