AHC: Make the US an officially libertarian country

[Pyramus]

By officially I mean enshrined in the constitution and such a common belief that non libertarians are considered extremists and even dangerous.
Note that the ideology doesn't have to be called libertarianism by the people ITT it just has to be what we would call libertarianism.

 

[moxn]

"What we would call libertarianism" is a bit of a loaded question. Originally, libertarians were what we would consider "leftists" and had more in common with modern libertarian-socialists. It's only more recently, and moreso in America, that libertarian is associated with being pro-capitalism. So which version of libertarianism do you mean?

 

[Theodoric]

Isn't prescribing a way of thinking by law against the very nature and values of any sort of libertarianism? It sounds a bit self-contradictory to me.

 

[Pyramus]

"What we would call libertarianism" is a bit of a loaded question. Originally, libertarians were what we would consider "leftists" and had more in common with modern libertarian-socialists. It's only more recently, and moreso in America, that libertarian is associated with being pro-capitalism. So which version of libertarianism do you mean?

I meant something more along the lines of modern American libertarianism but I'm open to left wing libertarianism as well.

 

[Pyramus]

Isn't prescribing a way of thinking by law against the very nature and values of any sort of libertarianism? It sounds a bit self-contradictory to me.

Yes and that's intentional, I was thinking of something like an ideology similar to communism in that it proclaims itself perfect truth. Just extreme capitalism instead of socialism.

 

[Ivoshafen]

Yes and that's intentional, I was thinking of something like an ideology similar to communism in that it proclaims itself perfect truth. Just extreme capitalism instead of socialism.

I feel as if the ideology didn't have enough traction at this age in order to pull it off, perhaps choose a later epoch?

 

[FillyofDelphi]

Yes and that's intentional, I was thinking of something like an ideology similar to communism in that it proclaims itself perfect truth. Just extreme capitalism instead of socialism.

So, Rapture from BioShock basically?

 

[Pyramus]

Yes, actually now that I think about it.

 

[Tripledot]

I mean, before the Progressive reforms mandating things like work safety, consumer protection laws, etc. couldn't it be said that this was the case already?

 

[Pylon_Mountain]

I mean, before the Progressive reforms mandating things like work safety, consumer protection laws, etc. couldn't it be said that this was the case already?

Basically, yeah. It wouldn't take that large of a change to the constitution to do really, perhaps an amendment or a part of the core document explaining that the constitution didn't just list what the government did, it listed the only thing that the government did. That would make the Progressive reforms nonstarters as they involve expanding the government power.

 

[Fabius Maximus]

Basically, yeah. It wouldn't take that large of a change to the constitution to do really, perhaps an amendment or a part of the core document explaining that the constitution didn't just list what the government did, it listed the only thing that the government did. That would make the Progressive reforms nonstarters as they involve expanding the government power.

That already exists; it's called the Tenth Amendment.