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It’s why libertarians suck at a lot of things

Sebastian on busybodies:

Most of us dont want power to rule others: we want to be left alone. But in order to be left alone, you have to seek enough power to make them leave you alone. That, I think, is our great Catch 22.

There is also the fact that most of us have things to do other than worry about what someone else might be doing.

Posted in uncategorized on November 11th, 2016 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

9 Responses to “It’s why libertarians suck at a lot of things”

  1. Old NFO Says:
    November 11th, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Amen to that!

  2. JK Brown Says:
    November 11th, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    [Classical]Liberalism does not have the least thing in common with any of these parties. It stands at the very opposite pole from all of them. It promises special favors to no one. It demands from everyone sacrifices on behalf of the preservation of society. These sacrifices— or, more accurately, the renunciation of immediately attainable advantages— are, to be sure, merely provisional; they quickly pay for themselves in greater and more lasting gains. Nevertheless, for the time being, they are sacrifices. Because of this, liberalism finds itself, from the very outset, in a peculiar position in the competition among parties. The antiliberal candidate promises special privileges to every particular group of voters: higher prices to the producers and lower prices to the consumers; higher salaries to public officeholders and lower taxes to taxpayers. He is prepared to agree to any desired expenditure at the cost of the public treasury or of the rich. No group is too small for him to disdain to seek its favor by a gift from the pocket of the “general public.” The liberal candidate can only say to all voters that the pursuit of such special favors is antisocial.

    Mises, Ludwig von (1927). Liberalism (p. 179).

  3. Tim Says:
    November 11th, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    “That, I think, is our great Catch 22.”

    Yeah, ‘that’, and also doing silly sh!t like wearing diapers in public to demonstrate precisely why no one should take you seriously.

    Awful glad I didn’t throw away my vote on some douche like Johnson.

  4. Alien Says:
    November 12th, 2016 at 3:49 am

    If more of them had to work for a living instead of coasting on others’ productivity it might lead to an attitude change. At the very least it would reduce the time available for them to commit mischief.

  5. DaveP. Says:
    November 12th, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    Well, that and continually finding excuses to side with the Democrats on gun control, religious freedom (or lack thereof), open borders and amnesty, et cetera. if people want the positions the Democratic Party holds, they’ll vote for Democrats. If the Libertarian Party wants to be taken seriously it needs to stake out positions as more than just the Party of Dope, Buttsecxs, and Christians Are Teh St00pid.

  6. Ron W Says:
    November 13th, 2016 at 9:17 am

    The crux of the problem:
    “Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”–Charles Peguy

  7. dustydog Says:
    November 13th, 2016 at 10:37 am

    Being introverted is not a viable political system. Emphatically, it is not a religion.

    Libertarians always seemed genuinely confused that they can’t convert people to their unique take on being introverted.

  8. DocMerlin Says:
    November 14th, 2016 at 4:02 am

    dustydog doesn’t get it.
    I am not in any way, shape or form introverted. Yet, I am very much a libertarian.
    Libertarianism is this easy: don’t use violence on people who haven’t stolen from anyone nor used violence on anyone.

    Thats it, it has nothing to do with extroversion or introversion.

  9. DaveP. Says:
    November 14th, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    “Libertarianism is this easy: don’t use violence on people who haven’t stolen from anyone nor used violence on anyone.”

    Well, if we use their Presidential ticket as a guide, Libertarians are all in favor of using state power (i.e. orders backed up with sanctioned violence) on Americans who own the wrong kinds of guns or Americans who want to run a business and still live within their faith (but only if they’re icky Christians).

    Honestly, that “Libertarians are for freedom and small government” mask is getting kinda thin.

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