"The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state."
Ron Paul
Libertarian Conservatism (BertCon) also known as Fusionism, Conservative Libertarianism (ConBert) or Conservatarianism is an economically and culturally right-wing libertarian ideology who is a combination of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservatism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarianism, pretty similar to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleolibertarianism, although it could be seen as if Libertarian Conservatism was a group of ideologies rather than a uniform movement, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleolibertarianism was a sub-group within it.
It advocates for the greatest economic freedom and least possible government interference, both in the economy and social life as a whole, mirroring Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Classical Liberal Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Laissez-Faire Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism. It prioritizes liberty and freedom of choice and believes this will help to serve conservative ends. It emphasizes the role of authority and duty in social life[2].
It can be seen as ideology which emphasizes the promotion of civil liberties and civil society through conservative institutions, such as the family, religion, among others, and authority, while still trying to reduce the overall coercive power and authority derivative from the state.[3]
A few Libertarian Conservatives hold some socially liberal beliefs on issues like drug legalization or gay rights, but oppose most modern progressive movements and side with conservatives in the culture war. These types are most commonly referred to as South Park Republicans, named after the popular animated show that is said to have first popularized this mindset.
History
The term started to be known when a prominent contributor in the National Review, a conservative editorial, Frank Meyer, described his ideology as a fusion of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative ideals in the 1950's[4]. In his most influential book, In Defense of Freedom, Meyer defined freedom in what Isaiah Berlin would label "negative" terms, as the minimization of the use of coercion by the state in its essential role of preventing one person's freedom from intruding upon another's.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Barry Goldwater
"The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process."
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Republican senator of Arizona from 1953-1965 and 1969-1987. At the time he was considered to be on the "fringe right-wing" of the party for his opposition to the legacy of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination New Deal and support of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination laissez-faire economics, aswell opposing the civil rights act. He was selected as the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination GOP's presidential candidate in 1964, where he lost by a landslide against the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic President Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Lyndon B. Johnson, after being successfully portrayed as a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination far-right extremist by LBJ's campaign. Although losing, his campaign is credited for pushing the GOP to the right and helping inspire the rise of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ronald Reagan. Despite his conservative views, he advocated for desegregation in the US military. Goldwater's views on social and cultural issues grew increasingly more libertarian over time nearing the end of his career (he believed that they were an integral part of true conservatism) as by the mid-1980s , he had spoken out in support of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the LGBT+ people being able to serve in the military, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination environmental protection, abortion rights and the legalization of medical marijuana.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ron Paul
Then, in the year 1975, former President of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination United States, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ronald Reagan, in an interview with Reason, trying to appeal to Libertarian circles, declared to "believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism"[5]. Although he was later criticized by many Libertarians, including Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Murray Rothbard[6] and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ron Paul, who was previously a supporter of Reagan. Ron Paul later declared being disillusioned with Reagan's administration and expressed his disgust on many policies, such as the 1981 budget bill, and apologized for supporting the former President Ronald Reagan and resigned as congressman.[7].
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Murray Rothbard
Radically influenced by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Classical Liberalism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination anti-regulationism along with being a big advocator of anti-war policies, Rothbard who had become the most influential figure on Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination US Libertarianism[8] strongly influenced and re-shaped the Old Right movement, after his departure from his alliance with the New Left (Especially within Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Market Anarchist circles), which he helped to shape as well and used to build relationships with other Libertarian sectors.
Rothbard, after breaking with said sector of the New Left, had started to involve more and more in an alliance with the growing Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleoconservative movement, seen by many observers, within Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian and non-Libertarian circles, as flirting with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination racism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social reaction[9][10]. Rothbard then, regarding these critiques, suggested that Libertarians needed to appeal and make themselves look 'more acceptable' to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socially and culturally conservative people, who are a big portion of the American population.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleolibertarians
After some time of this alliance with the Paleoconservative movement some Libertarians, such as Lew Rockwell[11] or Jeffrey Tucker, started self-identifying with the term Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination "Paleolibertarian", more specifically a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian wing of it. These Libertarians continued their opposition to all forms of government intervention, including cultural and social, while still upholding cultural conservatism in social thought and behavior. They opposed a Licentious Libertarianism which advocated for "freedom from bourgeois morality, and social authority."[11] Rockwell later stated to have dropped that self-description[12] because people confused it with a form of "socially-right wing Libertarianism", definition which Libertarians such as Rockwell rejected, instead opting to define it in opposition to "Beltway/Establishment Libertarians". Rockwell also affirmed that Paleoconservatives could be seen as "reducing liberty, not increasing it, through a form of publicly subsidized right to trespass."[13]
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hans-Hermann Hoppe
More recently, and still worth taking note of on the topic of Libertarian Conservative thinkers, we have Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hoppe, whose ideology is yet another form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Conservatism and/or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleolibertarianism. Hoppe argues that property rights imply exclusion/discrimination, and property owners could establish what he calls private "covenant communities" and may (or may not) agree to exclude certain people, depending on what the owners in said community prefer.
He also regards ostracism towards certain people within certain community as a viable way of "peacefully relocating" in case the members of the community desire so, by which their relocation is directly advocated for yet does not employ the iniciation of force.[14]
Hoppe made the argument in favor of ostracism refering especially to certain groups such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialists, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democracy advocators, who he regarded as a threat to the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination libertarian social order in the long run. But, although he's commonly believed that Hoppe hates Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Homosexuals, he doesn't (directly) advocate for ostracism towards them (and similar groups), the quote used as proof of his homophobia are simply examples of people covenant communities could exclude. However, Hoppe has regarded them (homosexuals) as "higher-time preferenced people" and, as was already said, posed the possibility of them being excluded from Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination family-oriented communities.
Hoppe also became even more controversial among Libertarian circles for his advocacy on restricted immigration[15] and his critiques to mainstream Libertarian movements, declaring that Libertarianism should become a culturally conservative movement in nature.[16]
Hoppe also has argued for the superiority of government systems such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Monarchism or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Aristocracy above the such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democracy. Although he has stated that, though he believes these systems are superior to democracy, he is not an supporter of them.[17][18]
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In Poland, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Janusz Korwin-Mikke, created a Libertarian Conservative movement around him with certain peculiarities, for example: being favorable to the restoration of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Monarchy in Poland, having anti-democratic positions (Although some Korwinists are not monarchists and instead propose a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Presidentialist RepublicError creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination). They're also in favor of Euroscepticism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Laissez-Faire Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism. The party has various factions within itself even if for the most part it is simply a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleolibertarian Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Minarchist-leaning party. It counts with an Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Capitalist faction, a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Republican faction, a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleoconservative faction, a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative Liberal faction, among others.
Variants
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File:Cball-South Park.png South Park Republicanism
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Personality and Behaviour
- Usually portrayed as a combination of Boomer behavior with Boogaloo style Libertarianism.
- "LGBT stands for Liberty, Guns, Beer and Tru-uh I mean, Taxation is theft!"
- "Darn kids, get off my property!"
How to Draw
Original variant
- Draw a ball,
- Make the bottom two thirds Yellow
- Make the top Blue and draw 3 white stars in the area.
- Draw the eyes, and you're done!
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Yellow | #FDDA2B | 253, 218, 43 | |
Blue | #3F47CD | 63, 71, 205 | |
White | #FFFFFF | 255, 255, 255 |
Alternative variant
- Draw a ball.
- Fill it with light cyan.
- Draw a black coiled rattlesnake in the middle.
- (Optional) Under the snake write some variation of "no step on snek" or "don't tread on me".
- Add the eyes and you're done!
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Light Cyan | #00AEEF | 0, 174, 239 | |
Black | #141414 | 20, 20, 20 |
Optional props
- Sunglasses.
- A gun of choice (either a pump-action shotgun or an assault rifle).
- A can of beer.
Relationships
Friends
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Libertarianism & Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleolibertarianism - We're almost an exact ideological match, one is more nationalist and the other is more conservative than me, respectively.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservatism - I'm a small wing within associated parties, so he has a lot of appeal to me.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarianism - Says sometimes I betray his principles by compromising with Conservatism. Still based.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservative Liberalism - Good brother of mine! Slightly more statist but alike otherwise!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Classical Liberalism - I hereby reclaim the word "liberal" for classical liberalism. This serves as an official notice. - Justin Amash
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Libertarianism - Church buddy.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination LGBT Conservatism - Gays should be allowed to get married, and Christian bakers don't have to make them wedding cakes.
Frenemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberaltarianism - I didn't know Democrats had some libertarians in there...
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hoppeanism - More radical than me and honestly, very racist.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Objectivism - Babe, we're soulmates! Wait, you're an atheist? And pro-choice? And you hate Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reagan?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paleoconservatism - He leans my ways sometimes, but he's just too statist a lot of the time. Also cut it out with the racism.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Conservatism - That's not what I meant by "minimizing the state"... But they're alright, I guess.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neo-Libertarianism - Yeah, I'm gonna need you to drop that pro-war talk.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Feminism - A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. - Barry Goldwater. Other than that, it's complicated...
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Confederalism - States' rights are important but they have limits.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pink Capitalism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism - I don't exactly hate you... you're better than the regular proggies, but that's it. Still kind of degenerate.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Alt-Lite - Now look here, boy. I may agree with you on cultural and social issues, but FOR THE UPTEENTH TIME, you are NOT libertarian or liberal even! You're basically Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination this guy but less crazy, admit it already!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Clintonism - You used to support me [19], what happened?
Atleast we both hate those darn Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Berniebros though. - Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Trumpism Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination - Big fan of your tax cuts and what you've done to revive the conservative movement. But please stop trampling on civil liberties.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Tuckerism - You used to be based, but then you abandoned me.
Enemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism–Leninism - Even if you have based foreign policy, you're still a statist bastard!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Trotskyism - Unlike your brethren, you don't even have a based foreign policy! Global communism... shiver me timbers.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Liberalism - My opposite.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoconservatism - This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea. - Ron Paul
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Kleptocracy - The government is a criminal organization.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bankocracy - End the Fed!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatocracy - What if "private" corporations, that are intimately tied to the government, do the things that government itself is legally forbidden from doing? This loophole has brought us the circumstances that we deal with today. - Ron Paul.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal Feminism - Just another statist puppet
Further Information
Wikipedia
People
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- Ron Paul
- Rand Paul
- Barry Goldwater
- Justin Amash
- Frank Meyer
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Ben Shapiro
- Calvin Coolidge
- Glenn Beck
- Larry Elder
- Tammy Bruce
- Dennis Miller
- Thomas Sowell
- Penn & Teller
- Austin Petersen
- Milton Friedman
- P. J. O'Rourke
- Amity Shlaes
- Arthur C. Brooks
Non-americans
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Janusz Korwin-Mikke Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Peter Thiel Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Maxime Bernier Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nigel Farage Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Daniel Hannan
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mikhail Svetov
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Moshe Feiglin Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paulo Kogos
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Otto Guevara Guth
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination José Piñera Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Johannes Kaiser
Parties and Organizations
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Tea Party movement
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Republican Liberty Caucus
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarians for Life
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Party of Russia Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Movement
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Real Politics Union Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberty and Lawfulness Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Congress of the New Right Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination KORWiN Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination People's Party of Canada Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination ACT New Zealand Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian, Direct, Democratic Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
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Literature
- Defense of Freedom:a Conservative Credo by Frank Meyer
- The Conservatarian Manifesto by Charles C. W. Cooke
- The Ten Things You Can't Say in America by Larry Elder
- Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John McWhorter
- The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
- Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul
Articles
- what is a conservatarian?
- What Exactly is a Conservatarian?
- Libertarianism and abortion by Laurence M. Vance
- A strategy for the right by Murray N. Rothbard
- Conservatives and Libertarians Natural Allies by GG Perez
Videos
References
- ↑ W:Mikhail_Svetov#Political_activity, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Wikipedia
- ↑ Heywood 2015, p. 37
- ↑ Hans Hermann Hermann (2018). Getting Libertarianism Right
- ↑ Feser, Edward (December 22, 2001). "What Libertarianism Isn't".
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Rothbard, Murray (1984). [2]. Free Life: The Journal of the Libertarian Alliance. Libertarian Alliance. '4 (1): 1–7. Retrieved September 20, 2020 – via the Mises Institute.
- ↑ Kutzmann, David M. (May 24, 1988). "Small Party Battles Big Government Libertarian Candidate Opposes Intrusion into Private Lives". San Jose Mercury News: 12A.
- ↑ Raimondo, Enemy 372-83.
- ↑ Sheffield, Matthew (2 September 2016). "Where did Donald Trump get his racialized rhetoric? From libertarians" The Washington Post.
- ↑ Lewis, Matt (23 August 2017). "The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline". The Daily Beast.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Rockwell, Lew. "The Case for Paleo-libertarianism" (PDF) on September 7, 2018.
- ↑ Kenny Johnsson, Do You Consider Yourself a Libertarian?, interview with Lew Rockwell, May 25, 2007.
- ↑ Rockwell, Llewellyn H. (May 2, 2002). "What I Learned From Paleoism".
- ↑ Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (11 April 2005). "My Battle With The Thought Police". Mises Institute. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ↑ Libertarian Papers Vol. 8, No. 1 (2016); Public Property and the Libertarian immigration debate by Simon Guenzl.
- ↑ Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 2001) 189.
- ↑ From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2014).
- ↑ Democracy: The God that failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2016).
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/2016/03/26/471958017/-goldwater-girl-putting-context-to-a-resurfaced-hillary-clinton-interview?t=1642161616340
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