Trey Parker (South Park) as libertarian

Jan 14, 2006, 1:12 PM ET6 posts by 5 posters
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Richard Fangnail

What has Trey said about being a libertarian and why he is one? There were supposed to be some articles in lp.org but I couldn't find them.

Trey lived in Japan a while and libertarians seem to like Japan, I suppose because of their enormous success in private industries.

In the Making of South Park thing (Season 2, Disc 3), who was that guy in the hot tub with them?

Vic ArpeggioRichard Fangnail

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There was a brief article about him a couple of months ago in the "LP News," the monthly Libertarian Party newspaper, but as I recall, it just mentioned that he was a Libertarian and didn't really go into his reasons for being one. Before reading that article, I had long suspected Matt and Trey were Libertarians, and one of the many reasons I enjoy South Park is because of the Libertarian principles it espouses, especially the commentaries on free market capitalism in the Harbucks and "Wall-Mart" episodes.

Vic

That GuyVic Arpeggio

"vic arpeggio" wrote in message news:[email]...

Capitalism is great, best thing ever... until you get a disease. There's no money in a cure, the money is in the drugs they sell you to keep you from dying. That's why, in spite of all the incredible advances in technology and medicine, no disease been cured since polio. I still think Capitalism is best, but it's not perfect. No system is.

Pink FreudThat Guy

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But don't they still sell vaccinations for polio? It's more in hiding than "cured" I think.

Vic ArpeggioThat Guy

Agreed. However, there's really no such thing as free market capitalism right now because of meddling by the world's big governments.

And I agree with you about medicine. There's no incentive to cure anything when the real money is in treatment. You can squeeze way more money out of someone who lives for years with some horrible disease than you can from a corpse.

Vic

Godzilla PimpRichard Fangnail

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Libertarians are deluded. There has never been a libertarian state and never will be. Fascism, on the other hand, works quite well. China is basically fascist.

Heil Hitler

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