Kucinich moves for Cheney Impeachment

[Urbane Guerrilla]

To expand on it: Libertarianism isn't going to prevail anywhere on this mortal Earth unless and until it beats out the other competing ideologies. Ideologies that embrace force and violence to achieve their ends will take a lot of beating. Beating them includes lethal force -- and can you imagine a death less to be mourned than that of undemocratic autocracy? If you could, you'd hardly be a libertarian, now would you?

Those ideologies wedded to force and violence attempt to practice them efficiently. Our virtuous conduct as libertarians is not going to shield our persons or our prospects from those ideologies' attempts at neutralizing us. Instead, we must be efficient at force and violence ourselves, to render their force impotent, which of course was what we wanted all along. Not only that, we must fight more efficiently than they do, and we must diligently undermine their cause to fight against our way. We don't have to prefer force and violence, not at all. But of course we should not submit to murder and thuggery either, and dead thugs menace only the public health, and that but briefly -- until burial.

The reason I say these things is that I understand the nastier side of human nature -- and I desire that it not defeat our ideology. I think you do also.

I care not a fig for "who's the purer Libertarian" in either action or thought -- this timewasting hobby of purer-than-thou-ism is the besetting sin of small third parties. What I see is a want of action, and a want of the thought that embraces action to reify it. I'm not crippled by want of that kind of thought. What I care for is the action of defeating competing ideologies along all possible paths.