Rob Lowe: ‘I Want the Government Out of Almost Everything’

Hollywood has a reputation for being overwhelmingly liberal, but occasionally you hear an actor sounding off on views that don’t line up with most of their peers. Rob Lowe made his views very well-known in an interview with The New York Times in which Lowe comes across very much like a libertarian.

Lowe elaborated on comments of his that belonging to a political party is a lot like recreational drug use, explaining that both are “highly overrated” and now just accepted in American society without much thought. He says, “My days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.”

And this is what he said when pressed on his specific beliefs.

“My thing is personal freedoms, freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.”

Lowe has previously sounded off on political issues, saying last year people don’t want “another Hollywood actor telling them anything about guns” and taking a shot at Erin Burnett two years ago for what he believed to be pro-Obama bias on her part.

[h/t Reason]

[photo via Reuters]

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