Ok, so some of the wording in Trump's speech had me and other
libertarians worried, those libertarians being John Stossel and Glenn Beck.
Basically something did not sit right and sounded very fascistic.
In the speech the words "I am the Law
and Order candidate", “I am your voice", "I will fix the
problems", "I will end the violence" were all used. It
felt very top down. As if a President Trump would be akin to an emperor
and order all our problems away. That the people had nothing to do but do
as they were told. For libertarians like myself this is antithetical to
our thinking. A president to many of my ilk want a President to hold back
the corruption and say "yes you the people will" and "I will
empower you and protect your freedom". But instead we got chants
from the crowd saying "yes you will" with Trump being the
"YOU" as the person to take care of everything. Essentially we
are chaining ourselves to someone as metaphorical slaves.
On top of the aforementioned, Trump said
that he will not allow businesses to move overseas, a statement reiterated by
Ryan Priebus (current head of the GOP) and some of Trump's children.
Basically a fascist policy of punishing businesses from going overseas (a
sentiment shared with the Democratic Party to my knowledge). Problem is,
no law and no government is allowed to infringe upon a business's right to
leave the country or to do any sort of business overseas. This is based
on the principle of tacit consent where if you do not like the laws in your
home country you can move with the expectation of obeying the laws of the place
you move too. Basically you can choose which laws to follow by moving
somewhere else. But the way it sounds from Trump and the current RNC is
that freedom will be taken away.
Final Thought: These are the key points that made
libertarians wonder if Trump is the lesser of two evils and if such a concept
can be accepted in American politics anymore. At the rate it is going,
Hillary and Trump are both potentially equally as bad as each other (Hillary
being as bad with respect to government takeovers of businesses, the economy
and health care). Hopefully me, Beck and Stossel are wrong and that those
words are merely for the impact and not the policy, but words tend to have
deeper meanings behind them. I hope I am wrong.
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