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August 10, 2007
Like An Omnidirectional Fulcrum
I was reading something else this morning — it escapes me what — but I distinctly remember coming to the conclusion that libertarianism is really centrism. Really.
Just a few moments ago, I ran across this blog entry, titled The Libertarian Center. It's downright spooky.
"[The] ideologies that pass for liberalism and conservatism today are too weighed down with authoritarian elements for either to lay claim to the real American center."
Libertarianism doesn't belong to the right wing any more than it belongs to the left wing. It is, for that matter, indefinable in those linear terms. (Just to be clear: I don't make any claims to be able to officially define libertarianism.)
My mind's eye pictured a small, spherical steel pivot point on which I was poised, probably on one foot: Atlas inverted. The task at hand was to keep the plane, which I inferred was the political plane, horizontal (balanced) while it was being stretched in all directions, with constantly varying degrees of force (upward, downward, always outward). Man, was my arch going to be sore.
Politics is Personal | By joe lance | 03:04 PM