Last summer I dated a Libertarian, and I credit Serena Williams and Obama’s health-care plan with our break-up.<\/p>\n
I’d met “Jim” on an online dating site. He was a 40-year-old hedge-fund manager, never married, and not bad looking. I brought my “A” game to our first date…What I discovered was more alarming than if he’d had a secret family…It turns out Jim had made a sizable contribution to Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign. Hmmm.<\/p>\n
…My political views have always been liberal, but as a single New Yorker in her mid-30s, I wasn’t about to let a little thing like the rejection of government or any other authoritarian power keep me from meeting the potential father of my children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The entertaining column, at first, leads you to believe that the author’s relationship became a disaster because her liberal beliefs didn’t square with her Ron Paul supporting boyfriend. Many of us can certainly relate to that. However, as the article goes on, you find that the problem wasn’t really about political differences at all. <\/p>\n
Intended or not, she makes an interesting philosophical point concerning human relations at the end of the piece. <\/p>\n
\nI did learn something from dating Lobster Salad [her former boyfriend], though, and it’s not that people with sharply contradictory political views can’t live happily ever after. (If both partners are respectful of each other’s beliefs, why shouldn’t we all have a shot at what Mary Matalin and James Carville have?) Instead, I learned that it’s better to be alone than to force oneself to “make it work,” Tim Gunn-style, after you’ve realized you find someone’s company stultifying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Her statement perhaps unwittingly makes an argument for the thrust of freedom and liberty. That isn’t it best to leave people with different value systems or customs alone then to force them into “make it work” scenarios? <\/p>\n
This is true whether we are talking about one group forcing another through law to buy health insurance or marching an army into foreign lands to make the world “safe for democracy.” <\/p>\n
Respectfully allowing people to live in their own voluntary communities in the way they choose, provided they’re not harming others, is the most humane way to coexist with our fellow man.<\/p>\n
We are not fighting political battles to impose our beliefs on our neighbors. We are fighting for everyone’s right to be left alone and to live as they see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Matt Holdridge There was a story today in The Daily Caller titled, “Hedging my bets by dating a Libertarian hedge-fund manager.” Last summer I dated a Libertarian, and I credit Serena Williams and Obama’s health-care plan with our break-up. I’d met “Jim” on an online dating site. He was a 40-year-old hedge-fund manager, never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}