I’VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD “LIBERTARIANS”
Nor why people self-identify as such — except of course as a means of avoiding admitting to themselves that they’re actually republicans, which, if you think about it, is as good a reason as any.
But I mean really, when you get down to what it’s all about conservative republican policies are nothing more than libertarian bullshit about tax cuts plus Jesus riding a dinosaur plus the fear of Teh Gays recruiting everyone into having Teh Man-on-Man Butt Seks added to the mix.
And with a resurgent Progressive/Liberal wing of the Democratic Party actually contributing to the national discourse, combined with the fact that the republicans have reduced themselves to a party that consists of the teabag rump of craziness and the KKK racists, gun nuts, birthers and the militia movement, you would think that Libertarians would have something productive to add to the dialogue currently taking place beyond the standard republican “keep the Wetbacks out and lower my taxes.”
But they don’t because more often than not they espouse the same shit house rat crazy ideas as the teabaggers. Which makes Libertarians about as deeply irrelevant to the political discourse in this nation as a group of people can be without actually ceasing to exist.
And if you doubt that then just ask Ron Paul, the great white libertarian savior, what he thinks. Because last time I checked he still had an {R} after his name in the spot where it lists political affiliation.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Yeah, and I’ve never met a single Libertarian who didn’t live some place that didn’t ALREADY have roads, schools, hospitals, utilities, etc.
When is the John Fucking Galt Great Society going to spring up with all these titans of industry showing us how a model society run by creatives going to start? Hurry! There’s a black dude in the White House!
Sigh.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:49 am
When I lived in San Francisco, the Cato Institute was still based there (not far from the Sharper Image headquarters, incidentally), and the Libertarian bookstore was just down Market Street from the Castro. Being an inquisitive sort, I picked up a few books. I think one was “A Theory of Strict Liability”. Another was “The Tragedy of the Commons”.
I found them convincing in the abstract. But that’s the problem with Libertarianism, to my mind. It’s often convincing — in the abstract.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
A libertarian is just a conservative with enough sense to feel shame.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I’ve always said Libertarians are just Republicans without the money.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I always thought Libertarians were just Anarchists who liked money, and soap.
But really they’re just dullards and smart arses lacking in any sort of empathy for their fellow man, or woman, or tranny, or even their own granny!
And even worse, being thus passionless, they’re crap in the sack.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I’ve always thought of Libertarians as Republicans who want to fuck as they enjoy and smoke weed.