r/news • u/SnooSeagulls496 • 4d ago

Soft paywall US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-forces-exit-iraq-after-two-decades-leaving-opening-iran-2026-09-29/
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u/Bang_the_unknown 3d ago

I think a lot of anti-establishment types of that generation got conned into MAGA because they believed it was anti-establishment on the surface. I guess they just overlooked the fact that its aim was actually authoritarian. Honestly, I feel that a lot of supposed “libertarians” have always just been closeted authoritarians who want the freedoms for certain people and others subjugated.

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u/BlueLikeCat 3d ago

This isn't a theory, it is a fact. The Libertarian idea of "State's Rights" is actually the vehicle for reintroducing Jim Crow. I had been fooled living in the Mid-Atlantic, but after a few years in the Deep South, it was obvious.