My cousin is a libertarian and he mistakenly thought that meant he is an anarchist because he does not believe in government. Anarchy would have government, but from the bottom up. Libertarians just want to get rid of the government regulations that prevent them from making as much money as they want.
Libertarians argue for less government, but it always translates into giving more power and money to the already obscenely rich 1% - which many Libertarians worship as the "job creators" and "entrepreneur winners". Libertarianism is social Darwinism on steroids.
I'm sure there might be a few reasonable Libertarians alive, but they are few and far between. Most of the one's I have known in the last four decades bowed at the altar of the Koch Brothers. And we all know the record of the Koch Network - and the corruption involved.
The whole plan from the start (of the Elite Wallstreet One Percenters to Wage War on the Poor) was to starve the US government - cut taxes, create huge debts (starting with Reagan) and then get Americans to hate the US government because it was doing nothing for them (although quite capable of feeding trillions into the MIC and WALLSTREET) - and to blame government itself as the problem. Meanwhile the billionaires like the Kochs who were the ones who corrupted the government - were all about deregulation and getting rid of any kind of reasonable taxes on the 1% obscenely wealthy. And well, we're all suppose to think of the Kochs as American Libertarian HEROES. Libertarian heroes my ass. They sucked the life blood out of American society, and the result is the greatest wealth TRANSFER and wealth INEQUALITY in the US not seen since the Robber Baron gilded age. Most ordinary Americans can't even afford a mortgage on a house and can't even afford to see a bloody doctor any more, let alone pay for a $100,000 truck. Try paying for a University education for your kid these days. Well - if you have more money than God and are one of the lucky few top 1% obscenely wealthy - Universities are no problem. But the rest of ordinary working American serfs- that haven't had an effective pay raise since the 1970s - you can forget the American dream - because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.
I agree with everything you say. I find it sad that so many people, including some libertarians, think that anarchy means no government. Even sadder when libertarians consider themselves to be anarchists. Sad for me, anyway. I am so sick of wealth being equated with success. Really, extreme wealth is just piggishness. Not success at all. I was listening to a program about the spread of wild pigs in the US and now in Canada. They are really difficult to deal with. They are manipulative, smart, greedy and they reproduce at an alarming rate. Except for the reproduction part (and who even knows about that) wild pigs could be a prototype for libertarians. Maybe a bit hard on the wild pigs, but there it is.
Yeah for me - the class warfare is pretty much at the foundation of the rot within the US, and the level of wealth inequality now is worst than it has ever been historically.
The lawless pursuit of greed and the philosophy that an entire society can be healthy based on self-serving greed alone - has now, in my opinion led to its denouement. Out-of-control Militarism. All three branches of the US government corrupted by the fat 1% pigs that still want to cut taxes even more. RECORD I mean RECORD profits by corporations and Wallstreet even as ordinary Americans have to cut back on what they eat, and how often they fill their gas tanks up. It's sickening to live through the economic destruction of this country, and have to watch a BRAIN DEAD American president run for office again while another billionaire rich fuck who is just as gung-ho on mass murder in GAZA - as the rest of the corrupt goons in DC are - it's sickening to have to listen to the crass intellectual bullshit that government is the problem, that American workers are lazy - and that if you just cut taxes even more - it will all trickle down. I've been listening to this bullshit now all my life - along with how democratic and freedom loving the Israelis are. It's all 24/7 nonstop propaganda led by the most evil empire ever to exist on this planet.
My cousin is a libertarian and he mistakenly thought that meant he is an anarchist because he does not believe in government. Anarchy would have government, but from the bottom up. Libertarians just want to get rid of the government regulations that prevent them from making as much money as they want.
Libertarians argue for less government, but it always translates into giving more power and money to the already obscenely rich 1% - which many Libertarians worship as the "job creators" and "entrepreneur winners". Libertarianism is social Darwinism on steroids.
I'm sure there might be a few reasonable Libertarians alive, but they are few and far between. Most of the one's I have known in the last four decades bowed at the altar of the Koch Brothers. And we all know the record of the Koch Network - and the corruption involved.
The whole plan from the start (of the Elite Wallstreet One Percenters to Wage War on the Poor) was to starve the US government - cut taxes, create huge debts (starting with Reagan) and then get Americans to hate the US government because it was doing nothing for them (although quite capable of feeding trillions into the MIC and WALLSTREET) - and to blame government itself as the problem. Meanwhile the billionaires like the Kochs who were the ones who corrupted the government - were all about deregulation and getting rid of any kind of reasonable taxes on the 1% obscenely wealthy. And well, we're all suppose to think of the Kochs as American Libertarian HEROES. Libertarian heroes my ass. They sucked the life blood out of American society, and the result is the greatest wealth TRANSFER and wealth INEQUALITY in the US not seen since the Robber Baron gilded age. Most ordinary Americans can't even afford a mortgage on a house and can't even afford to see a bloody doctor any more, let alone pay for a $100,000 truck. Try paying for a University education for your kid these days. Well - if you have more money than God and are one of the lucky few top 1% obscenely wealthy - Universities are no problem. But the rest of ordinary working American serfs- that haven't had an effective pay raise since the 1970s - you can forget the American dream - because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.
I agree with everything you say. I find it sad that so many people, including some libertarians, think that anarchy means no government. Even sadder when libertarians consider themselves to be anarchists. Sad for me, anyway. I am so sick of wealth being equated with success. Really, extreme wealth is just piggishness. Not success at all. I was listening to a program about the spread of wild pigs in the US and now in Canada. They are really difficult to deal with. They are manipulative, smart, greedy and they reproduce at an alarming rate. Except for the reproduction part (and who even knows about that) wild pigs could be a prototype for libertarians. Maybe a bit hard on the wild pigs, but there it is.
Yeah for me - the class warfare is pretty much at the foundation of the rot within the US, and the level of wealth inequality now is worst than it has ever been historically.
The lawless pursuit of greed and the philosophy that an entire society can be healthy based on self-serving greed alone - has now, in my opinion led to its denouement. Out-of-control Militarism. All three branches of the US government corrupted by the fat 1% pigs that still want to cut taxes even more. RECORD I mean RECORD profits by corporations and Wallstreet even as ordinary Americans have to cut back on what they eat, and how often they fill their gas tanks up. It's sickening to live through the economic destruction of this country, and have to watch a BRAIN DEAD American president run for office again while another billionaire rich fuck who is just as gung-ho on mass murder in GAZA - as the rest of the corrupt goons in DC are - it's sickening to have to listen to the crass intellectual bullshit that government is the problem, that American workers are lazy - and that if you just cut taxes even more - it will all trickle down. I've been listening to this bullshit now all my life - along with how democratic and freedom loving the Israelis are. It's all 24/7 nonstop propaganda led by the most evil empire ever to exist on this planet.
The American Dream Isn't Dead... You Just Can't Afford It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeCbejSGEXU