Yes, I'm a communist. I do not want an auditor or any other position of power to be held by a Libertarian. Can we move past my disclosure of my own politics and acknowledge that I think based on the facts that he won and should be sworn in??
Without getting too much into politics, I am pretty sure most libertarians would be pretty decent in an auditor position. (assuming the person has a least basic understanding of accounting). An auditor is not a policy based position.
While most people think of Libertarian right on the basic political compass when thinking about libertarians. Lib-right and lib-left do have a fair amount of overlap on certain things. Although, considering your politics I can understand your dislike since most lib-right are quite pro business, but their politics are more than that.
For the purpose of this discussion I absolutely do not care about the candidate’s political position or fitness for the job, and find it absurd that my comment is being used to inject advocacy for it or any political position.
The only reason I brought up my political difference was to make absolutely clear that I am advocating for seating a political opponent, because not doing so is undemocratic.
I agree that not seating the person who won their local election is a big problem. You mentioned you don’t want their politics to succeed. I just was saying this is a non-policy position. Further, when it comes to how tax money is spent a Libertarian generally is gonna make certain it is spent as approved and allowed so the concern about policy is a tad misplaced.
Like I am not sure which type of communist you are, but if you are along the lines of an anarcho-communist or the lib-left area. All I was saying the main disagreements between the two are regarding business and property ownership. For a lot of things there is a lot of overlap. (They both are south on the basic compass after all) Although some big L libertarians are very hardcore capitalists so I can understand your concerns. Although yea this is a bit of a tangent. I guess all I was trying to say was I am not sure why the concern for a non-policy position.
I’m saying I have repeatedly tried to express a strong disinterest in discussing the political difference in this context, and I’ve repeatedly clarified that. Clarifying your engagement isn’t going to change my unwillingness to participate, here, where I clearly described my politics to support a candidate with whom I disagree.
I don't know, the theoretical power an auditor holds is too much IMHO for someone that doesn't understand government and believes they should do almost nothing. I can easily see how such an auditor can block things ( e.g. saying they'll refuse to certify accounts if money is spent on a new park because for them, parks should be built by benevolent rich people or citizens pooling money or run for profit, and the government doing that is an egregious waste of taxpayer money and bureaucracy).
Note: that's just conjecture, i have no idea what Kevin's specific type of Libertarian is, maybe he's a sensible one, even though i can't see how that would work.
PS with my favourite quote on libertarians - "They are like house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand." By John Spaulding
