Libertarianism For Dummies
Submitted by Alliance With None on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 04:34by Max Borders
There is no denying it. Libertarianism is hot. This has a lot of people on both the left and right nervous. Some of the territory liberals and conservatives believed they had staked out long ago is being taken over by a new center — one that seems to borrow from aspects of each of the dominant partisan tribes. But libertarianism has its own elegant symmetry, as we’ll see.
The two tribes’ anxiety toward libertarianism rears its head in a number of ways. Most critics stitch together libertarian voodoo dolls from scraps of hearsay and Newsweek articles, then needle the dolls to get a reaction. Others say libertarianism is passé — a mere echo of discredited Enlightenment thinking. Still others claim libertarianism is a dogma that could never exist in the “real world.”
This article is intended as a general antidote to these criticisms. But more than that, it’s an invitation. So feel free to bookmark it. Whenever one of your social network “friends” starts in on some rant, you can save time and simply link to this piece.
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Libertarianism is selfish and
Libertarianism is selfish and greedy. It's the ideology of that godless heathen Ayn Rand, the feminist Christian basher.
Only the crazies support that weird ideology.
I don't think we should blindly follow any doctrine.
All I want is the fairest most flexible system of government so that people can live their lives in peace.
But it seems to me that libertarianism is the closest to this system but I worry about people being too committed to pure libertarianism without being flexible in some areas.
Lord Acton, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1875 - "The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People v. The Banks."