What political party do you follow for classical liberalism?
Many political parties are focused on just classical liberalism or a broader right-wing or libertarian ideology.
My top 3 that fit classical liberalism for me are:
Many political parties are focused on just classical liberalism or a broader right-wing or libertarian ideology.
My top 3 that fit classical liberalism for me are:
From Tyler Cowen writing in the Free Press:
>Is America ruled by an oligarchy—that is, a small group of tightly knit, self-serving, and very wealthy people?...
>Let’s look at the facts. First, in people’s daily lives, they typically interact with their state and local governments more than with the feds. And if you look at what state and local governments do, most of it is driven by voter demand, and I do not mean billionaire or oligarchic voters.
>Most state and local government spending goes toward schools, roads, and increasingly, Medicaid. None of those reflect the agendas of most billionaires. For example, Medicaid dollars flow particularly to lower-income recipients. Hospitals and doctors receive income from this program, but reimbursement rates are relatively low, and many of the best doctors do not accept Medicaid patients and don’t make a living from the program.
>Now look at the federal budget. The major components of spending are Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid (joined with the states), defense, and interest on the national debt. Those programs are a mix of popular and necessary, and they were not put in place, and are not kept in place, by billionaires or oligarchs...
>[A] large number of policies and regulations are obscure, difficult to understand, and affect relatively small numbers of Americans. In those cases, special interests very often get their way. Voters may vaguely sense that something is wrong or that they are being screwed over, but they have no obvious recourse...
>Teachers fight for the rights of teachers’ unions, plumbers may support occupational licensing to limit competitors, and doctors may not wish to have the law allow nurse practitioners to take over many of their duties. It is hard to build new homes in cities such as San Francisco, mostly because current homeowners do not want them to be built. Sometimes special-interest groups include billionaires, but very often they do not, or they involve billionaires only to a small degree...
>It is fair to say that the affluent have an advantage in American politics, as indeed they do in virtually everything, and that the poor stand at some disadvantage. The reality is that different income classes, at least within each party, largely agree about politics, even if the two parties have very different visions of where America should be headed...
>It is also correct to suggest that President Trump, who is a billionaire, conducts some of his administration’s policies to enrich himself and his friends, including through the corrupt mechanism of selling a family-linked cryptocurrency to those who seek influence. That is a bad way to run the country, but do not confuse it with the hypothesis that oligarchs run the entire government or set most of its policies.
>Most policies are still determined either by voter desires or by traditional special-interest groups, for better or worse. Resenting the very wealthy or imagining that they have created a special “oligarch” class is just another way of running away from our very real problems.
Selecting Biological Sex on ATF Forms, as proposed, is a blatant overreach of state power, ATF mission creep, a waste of resources, gross negligence of scientific consensus on biology, and a violation of established case law.
You can comment until Aug 4 on the Trump administration's latest assault on the Second Amendment. If you like, you can simply copy and paste the text of the article, which is within the 5,000 character limit.
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/ATF-2026-0010-0001
Furthermore, the ATF must be abolished.