I read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316979
and it changed my opinion on the issue. I used to say that I support open borders after all the entitlements are removed, but the research suggests that it isn't as much of a problem as I intuitively think.
That is not accurate. It’s a meme that someone made up and a bunch of people repeated without verifying its veracity.
Check the numbers
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016
I've always liked what Milton Friedman said about preventing people from doing what you don't like, making the connection with freedom explicit:
> A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Not OP but I'm in the same boat as him and may have similar reasoning:
I support UBI (and maybe public healthcare contingent on a few things) over our current welfare system. I am fiscally conservative but i still see the need for some form of safety net to help those in need (not "take care of their every want"). A UBI in my eyes should be just enough to bolster your emergency savings and scrape by on during an emergency/hardship/ job loss, etc. It would just take the current funding for wealfare and transform it into a UBI minus all the paper pushing and autocratic bloat that is in the current system saving money overall. Another option that is similar to this is the "negative income tax bracket"; but I feel like that's too complicated an idea to sell to the general population.
For healthcare, it depends on if our current system is salvageable. It's currently so corrupt that I honestly don't know if we could fix it quickly enough without the government taking a dangerous amount of action anyways. Ideally I'd like to see a totally free healthcare market without all these restrictions of competition and regulations; but, I'd also ideally like to win the lottery and that's probably not happening either.
Maybe cause he wrote a book on it and goes around speaking about it?
Full stop. You really have No idea, not even a guess Why I would think Kendi pushed that term and his brand of "anti-racism" into the limelight?
No idea at all? hmmm...
Just FYI BLM the organization co-founders literally met and talked with Maduro.
Also given the atmosphere of 2020, I think it was pretty clear what was meant by that tweet. If you really think they meant "judge not someone by their skin color, but by the content of the character" then I can see why you would think its a great thing to tweet.
It seems like you next to nothing about libertarianism. Why would a philosophy that puts individual sovereignty above all think its a good idea to have an international planning committee, whose singular purpose it is to sway the foreign policy decisions sovereign governments? What sense does that make? Libertarians have no problem with free trade. Its the idea of free trade for some corporate entities over others that libertarians have a problem with, which is really what most free trade agreements are anyways. In order to have a libertarian's idea of free trade, there does not need to be a dictation of thousands of pages of laws. The libertarian's idea of free trade deal is -> if you can get your products on our country's soil, then you can trade it.
The CFR is also seen by many libertarians as well as socialists, as part of global conspiracy by very wealthy people to have control in every government in the world. Those who value individual liberty must always be skeptical of global alliances. A good place to start is The Shadows of Power