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What's wrong with libertarianism
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 03, 2009 02:28am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Sunday, August 2, 2009 10:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Apparently someone's curse worked: we live in interesting times, and among other consequences, for no good reason we have a surplus of libertarians. With this article I hope to help keep the demand low, or at least to explain to libertarian correspondents why they don't impress me with comments like "You sure love letting people steal your money!"
Good libertarians and the other kind
This article has been rewritten, for two reasons. First, the original article had sidebars to address common objections. From several people's reactions, it seems that they never read these. They're now incorporated into the text.
Second, and more importantly, many people who call themselves libertarians didn't recognize themselves in the description. There are libertarians and libertarians, and sometimes different camps despise each other-- or don't seem to be aware of each other.
If you--
* have never heard of (or don't think much of) Rothbard, Rockwell, Rand, and von Mises
* accept that the FDIC is a pretty good idea
* want a leaner, more efficient government, but don't dream of getting rid of it
...then this page isn't really addressed to you. You're probably more of what I'd call a small-government conservative; and if you voted against Bush, we can probably get along just fine.
On the other hand, you might want to stick around to see what your more fundamentalist colleagues are saying. |
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