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[–] A_Fringe_Element ago
I'm aware - I personally think it's a shallow ideology that stands for little at the end of the day but "muh freedoms". We've consistently seen that a society where anything goes and "don't judge" is the motto will destroy itself. Economic pitfalls can be corrected social pitfalls are rarely as easy.
"Muh freedoms" and "muh constitution" are not going to save you from a 51% majority. The mythical immigrant looking for a better life is coming here because of our GDP and lack of wars/diseases. He brought his ideas with him when he crossed an imaginary line and was given a magical piece of paper by a government bureaucrat.
Actually it worked quite well for generations. Until very recently in history allowing millions of Africans and Arabs into your country wasn't even imaginable. To this day there's many countries with almost completely homogeneous populations. Most people are fickle - most of the people alive today status signalling for gay rights were making jokes about faggots ten to fifteen-years-ago. That pendulum can swing the other direction as well. Groups like BLM and Muslims do more for white nationalism than anyone else because at its core white nationalism is merely a survival strategy.
In the US that's unnecessary - this country has the sociological version of AIDS and will go the way of the USSR. We'll see what emerges from those ashes but there's enough land to divide. It's Europe that needs ethnic cleansing and that's much more likely to happen.
PS - my "ideology" is no more radical than Zionism.
[–] intrepiddemise ago
Let's see...libertarianism's principles do not amount to "anything goes" or "don't judge", "muh constitution" doesn't save me from a 51% majority, I agree; its perceived legitimacy does. Also, Zionism is a radical ideology, and history has shown that groups that assimilate into the dominant culture of a country can be just as successful (if not more so, look at Korean Americans, for example) as the native population.
If you want a less radical platform, one that may actually be listened to by the average person, then it is not freedom you should be fighting against, but domination (especially by certain groups, if that's your thing). It shouldn't be constitutional principles that you fight against, but the perversion of those principles for ends with which you do not agree. It shouldn't be immigration that you're fighting against, but the failure of immigrants to assimilate into American culture (or, worse yet, subversion of that culture into some form of socialism). You can wait around for the "AIDS" to destroy the U.S., or you can actually do something toward making positive change. It's up to you.