Matt Taibbi is a self-described libertarian who opposes Roe v. Wade and opposes Federal job
protections for LGBT people.
The fact that he endorses anyone is NOT a good reason for a progressive to do so.
He was raised by leftist parents but has made his own twisted path since them. He's not a progressive.
https://reason.com/archives/2007/11/09/an-interview-with-matt-taibbi
The former editor of the eXile—an irreverent English-language newspaper and website in post-Soviet Moscow—and a contributor to the New York Press, Taibbi’s politics are all over the map. The son of NBC journalist Mike Taibbi, Taibbi says he "grew up around left-wing politics; I spent a lot of time at peace marches." He describes himself as "more of a libertarian than anything else," but favors heavy regulations of industry. He despises the religious right but wants Roe v. Wade overturned because he's a staunch federalist. He opposes the Iraq War, but doesn’t feel that homosexuals should have federal job protections. More than anything, the 37-year-old Taibbi believes that investing any emotion in the ideals of American democracy is “digging for hope in a shit mountain.”
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Some people cannot disagree with a person and respect their sincerity/intelligence at the same time. If they disagree, they must be evil, or stupid, or whatever.
Simply endorsing anyone else is enough for this?
Most self-identifying "libertarians" actually subscribe to a bankrupt ideology. What if they all opened their eyes?
Edwin Lyngar
The rise of Bernie Sanders feels familiar to me. When I was a libertarian-leaning Republican, I was a delegate for Ron Paul in the 2008 Nevada State Convention. Paul’s supporters were passionate if a bit nutty, but change seemed, if only for a moment, possible. The problem was that the ideology behind the candidate was bankrupt. The experience was the beginning of the end of my affiliation with simplistic libertarian blather and GOP politics altogether, but Paul’s rise was driven by the same frustration and anger that is now propelling Sanders.
For too long, the anger and passion has been driven by Tea Party types and libertarians. Their solution seems to be throwing more gasoline on a trailer-park fire. Inequality? Cut taxes for the wealthy and implement a “flat tax.” Poverty? Eliminate the social safety net and cut food stamps. Those not actively making problems worse are obsessed with non-stories and fictitious “scandals,” featuring Benghazi, Jade Helm, e-mail servers or any of the other innumerable, invented outrages.
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/20/why_libertarians_should_love_bernie_sanders/
Taibbi & a bunch of other Libertarians fit the criteria, and have somehow managed to infuse their ideology into some new progressive hybrid. It's a strange a marriage, and just a little bit scary.
