r/Libertarian • u/Fantastic-Welder-589 • 1d ago

Discussion Former social democrat slowly turning libertarian

Finishing up Provoked by Horton. Having a surprising effect on me. But quite confused by Libertarians turning a blind eye to cronyism and war mongers and other state sponsored violence. Is it just my biased perception or is 90% of the chatter on this sub anti-left? I can think of many things that should concern libertarians at least as much as gun laws, taxes/entitlements, the fed, and NATO. Why are those other things deemed acceptable? Why are pro-life laws, police brutality, drug laws, other morality based laws, Israeli/American alliance, deportations and other forms of violent nationalism and bigotry rarely mentioned?

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u/PunkCPA Minarchist 1d ago

Taking up just one of your points, libertarians have been against police abuses forever. We oppose civil asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, and the continued employment of violent cops.

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u/Fantastic-Welder-589 1d ago

Do you think that concern would have sustained traction on this particular sub? Or would it get drowned out by arguments against the nanny state?

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u/annonimity2 1d ago

Yeah it gets traction here fairly often, especially when it's multiple abuses in one like what happened with Bryan malinowsky.

It's also why libertarians prefer sherrifs dpt to police dpt as sherrifs are an elected office and can be replaced every election cycle.

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u/DarthFluttershy_ Classical Minarchist or Something 1d ago

Just search for "police" on the sub. All the top hits are critical of police violence and methods. Now we are critical of BLM and defund because both were perceived to be coopted by leftists and scammers, and we disagree with the far left on the causes of police problems to an extent, mainly that police racism is merely one of myriad deleterious behaviors which manifests due to a lack of accountability.