The civilizatioin they created on Novus: Libertarian or Socialist?

[Keeper]

I'm sure quite a few of them were whiners. It appeared that Young had no beef with them leaving. It's pretty obvious the truly valuable folks didn't leave.

to be fair, he couldn't really stop them - it's a big world, and diary-chloe's mention of young being re-elected suggests a democracy of some sort. to force them to stay would have given them more support.

[morrismike]

to be fair, he couldn't really stop them - it's a big world, and diary-chloe's mention of young being re-elected suggests a democracy of some sort. to force them to stay would have given them more support.

Truthfully they were all pretty tired of the nonsense and gave the whiners a swift kick in the rear as they left.

[Ben 'Teal'c would WIN!!' Noble]

Socialist Hopefully .

[jackfloyd1973]

as was already mentioned, young was re-elected implying reasonable level of approval towards how he did things in governance. his orders to do things like fix it or build a fence were in an emergency situation, and those things suited everyones interests. with a gradual normalization on the planet and hopefully a move to free market (not to be confused with corporatist=corporations dictating laws) there would likely be a steady reduction in young's orders. since young wasn't interested in power he likely only ran for election out of the view that he can get things done right. there is likely libertarian influence since many of the crew knew what happens when government has to much power(greer once mentioned the evils of america's apartheid era). while there was scientific advances on novus since both countries were founded by groups with a lot of scientists, it's possible that non-military science could have been by free-market because without government interference there is incentive for scientific advances, the populations by referendum might have approved a tax to fund science, or research was financed by state governments since the planet had a large population and states rights(not the code word used for evil ends, just limited federal government) in things like scientific research is consistent with libertarianism. there is also the fact that no one really cared that wray's a lesbian, basically considering that a personal matter, which is both a liberal and libertarian viewpoint

this is based on my being a free market libertarian, and there are numerous varieties of libertarian, even socialists