My problem with Libertarians (and I was intellectually curious about them for a while ( I was good with personal liberty, privacy issues etc)...and for some reason I met a lot of them when I was doing the online dating thing ( don't ask...lol). is that bottom line they were way more idealistic than me, and I am an extreme one...lol...th…
My problem with Libertarians (and I was intellectually curious about them for a while ( I was good with personal liberty, privacy issues etc)...and for some reason I met a lot of them when I was doing the online dating thing ( don't ask...lol). is that bottom line they were way more idealistic than me, and I am an extreme one...lol...their premise always seemed to be that left to their own devices, everyone will do the right thing...and there will be utopia and normal human traits that are not our good ones ( anger, fear, hate, stubbornness etc) will just disappear, plus they really lost me at taxes are theft and the anarchy thing...lol
There used to be a talk show host in the 90s that I enjoyed listening to. The host was a Libertarian and this was all sort of new to me. Like you...I sort of listened in interest and wonderment about the ideas he espoused that seemed so out of step with most US citizens. Then we had the big hurricane hit Florida and the discussion came up about the law that was implemented that prevented stores from jacking up their prices...and taking advantage of people in an emergency. He argued that this was against free trade as was antithetical to our country's best interest.
To this day...that has been my argument that Capitalism is an ok economy/government but it literally has NO SOUL. The government attempts to be that soul because a pure profit motive will eventually lead to very bad behavior and hurts our country.
FoxNews is a great example of an entity that makes money, has lost its soul and is bad for our country. Their whole business model is designed to provide content that their viewers love, but the problem is that their viewers think it's actually the news and an even handed representation of what is going in the world.
My problem with Libertarians (and I was intellectually curious about them for a while ( I was good with personal liberty, privacy issues etc)...and for some reason I met a lot of them when I was doing the online dating thing ( don't ask...lol). is that bottom line they were way more idealistic than me, and I am an extreme one...lol...their premise always seemed to be that left to their own devices, everyone will do the right thing...and there will be utopia and normal human traits that are not our good ones ( anger, fear, hate, stubbornness etc) will just disappear, plus they really lost me at taxes are theft and the anarchy thing...lol
Plus, they all aren't on the same page...lol
Guess they are now, I guess, if a bad page.
There used to be a talk show host in the 90s that I enjoyed listening to. The host was a Libertarian and this was all sort of new to me. Like you...I sort of listened in interest and wonderment about the ideas he espoused that seemed so out of step with most US citizens. Then we had the big hurricane hit Florida and the discussion came up about the law that was implemented that prevented stores from jacking up their prices...and taking advantage of people in an emergency. He argued that this was against free trade as was antithetical to our country's best interest.
To this day...that has been my argument that Capitalism is an ok economy/government but it literally has NO SOUL. The government attempts to be that soul because a pure profit motive will eventually lead to very bad behavior and hurts our country.
FoxNews is a great example of an entity that makes money, has lost its soul and is bad for our country. Their whole business model is designed to provide content that their viewers love, but the problem is that their viewers think it's actually the news and an even handed representation of what is going in the world.