Quote from: Adrian-x on January 09, 2014, 06:30:27 PM

Quote from: htspringer on January 09, 2014, 04:58:08 PM

Quote from: NChosting on January 07, 2014, 10:57:09 AM

Its like the economists have gone on a witch hunt against Bitcoin!

Whats their problem?

It's really quite simple.
Those who are afraid of bitcoin are spineless liberals who despise grassroots movements by the people.
They believe in government solutions. Bitcoin contradicts their ideology.

Spineless Liberals - that's harsh, it sounds biased, I have held the overselling opinion that I am a conservative, a liberal, a libertarian, even an anarchist. The political ideology is nothing more than a label in defining people who believe in a general method is the optimal way to achieve social harmony and economic efficiency. Those afraid of Bitcoin are not spineless, just ignorant at some level.

+1.

Too many people don't even think about what "liberal" even means (as a principle). "Liberals" in the US have a very limited sense of actually espousing liberal values (amusingly, very much in itself the opposite of the definition of the word "liberal")

If anyone spends long enough watching or reading Russia Today, they'll notice the European versions of the Libertarians in Britain and France. Apparently, "Libertarian" is characterised by being an ultra-nationalist, borderline or overt racist, pseudo fascist and not forgetting corporate capitalist. Hard right in a Hitler way.

Strange, eh? You identify with being a Liberal in the US, and you end up being statist authoritarian. You want to be a Libertarian in Europe, and you end up with Ultra-Right mega-racist parties to choose from. Why can't we sign up to politics that the label describes?