Are video games and libertarianism a natural fit?

The June issue of Reason, the monthly libertarian magazine for "free markets and free minds," focuses on video games and features everything from new polling about the beliefs of U.S. gamers to a list of video games that "every libertarian must play."

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Are video games and libertarianism a natural fit? Reasonvgcover-228x300

According to the magazine's editor in chief, Matt Welch, gaming and libertarianism are a pretty natural fit.

"People who game tend to be much more tolerant, pretty skeptical of state power and take a more grass-roots, bottom-up view of the world -- and are certainly more in favor of legalizing marijuana," Welch said Thursday in an interview with The Switch. "It's not that everyone who plays video games is a secret libertarian, but that their list of shared attributes is now mainstream, and it's importantly different than what we've seen traditionally."

"How gaming is making America freer -- and more fun," proclaims the issue's cover under a headline describing the United States as a "video game nation." The cover art, in an homage to Grand Theft Auto V, features a man in a suit playing a video game and pointing an index finger upward while a scantily clad woman stands in a doorway looking outraged. At the man's feet are a bong and a 3-D printed gun.

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Are video games and libertarianism a natural fit?

Are video games and libertarianism a natural fit?

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