Bro how tf can you be Poli Sci AND Christian and be a damn Libertarian? Like pay attention, we need to care about each other not compete with our neighbors to make some millionaire into a billionaire
I'm more of a conservative in my personal views, but a libertarian in my role of government, which should be as limited as possible. Free-market principles have brought more people out of poverty than any other political or economic model.
Capitalism is compassion. A proper market economy needs not just competition, but rule of law and virtues like cooperation, stable families, self-sacrifice, a commitment to delayed gratification, and a willingness to risk based on a future hope. These all fit nicely with the Christian worldview.
Free market economies are not zero-sum games in which someone wins only if someone else loses. We have discovered an economic order that creates wealth in abundance.. capitalism. And only the creation of wealth will reduce poverty in the long run.
Wealth is created when our creative freedom is allowed to prosper in a free-market environment undergirded by the rule of law and suffused with a rich moral culture. This creative freedom comes naturally to Christians. We believe that human beings are made in God’s image, and sent by God to work and prosper in the world he gave us. Our creative freedom reflects that divine image. The essence of Christianity is one of the least appreciated truths of economics.
Christianity and capitalism and by extension fair competition are not bitter enemies. On the contrary, a good Christian can be, and should be, a good capitalist.


















