I grew up in Northern VA, and so many of my childhood friends still up there work in low to mid level jobs for the Federal government or doing IT grunt work for DoD contractor, and “lean Libertarian”.
Trying to figure out how they don’t realize that they’ll be the first to be culled after the political opposition is a complete mind fuck.
Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they’re gay but otherwise Republican. Bro.
Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they smoke weed but are otherwise Republican. Bro.
Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they support reproductive rights but are otherwise Republican. Bro.
I’ve tried gently talking sense to a lot of these people for an over decade at this point. It’s slowly built to a point where I’m writing off friendships.
I’m from there too. I could feel myself slowly becoming that type of libertarian shit head growing up until I moved away. Libertarianism is the only way you can rationalize all the bullshit you see around you and still remain in that environment.
It takes a severe level of willful ignorance to work for the MIC. They’re so close to the contradictions at play that whenever you try to interrogate them on those contradictions they just short circuit in a way. Often they’ll repeat some sort of aphorism.
I grew up in Northern VA, and so many of my childhood friends still up there work in low to mid level jobs for the Federal government or doing IT grunt work for DoD contractor, and “lean Libertarian”.
Trying to figure out how they don’t realize that they’ll be the first to be culled after the political opposition is a complete mind fuck. Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they’re gay but otherwise Republican. Bro. Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they smoke weed but are otherwise Republican. Bro. Some of them claim the Libertarian label because they support reproductive rights but are otherwise Republican. Bro.
I’ve tried gently talking sense to a lot of these people for an over decade at this point. It’s slowly built to a point where I’m writing off friendships.
I’m from there too. I could feel myself slowly becoming that type of libertarian shit head growing up until I moved away. Libertarianism is the only way you can rationalize all the bullshit you see around you and still remain in that environment.
It takes a severe level of willful ignorance to work for the MIC. They’re so close to the contradictions at play that whenever you try to interrogate them on those contradictions they just short circuit in a way. Often they’ll repeat some sort of aphorism.