The Lies That People Believe

[discocrisco01]

I saw this comment onhttp://www.reuters.com/article/comments/idUSN2913784220100830">Reuters article

This is an easy fix. Lower taxes. Drop regulations. Shrink government programs. Drop entitlement programs. Enforce the constitution. Stay out of people lives. Open the borders to all people that want to live in the US. Shrink the military. Shrink defense spending. Drop all enforcement of illicit substances. Get out of two wars. Stop all subsidies and incentive programs for housing, kids, industries. Abolish the Federal Reserve. Then abolish all property ownership by the government. Private owners would do a much better job of taking care of their property. All this means is for our governments to do less and people to do more and produce more and live responsible happy lives.

These people are really drink their own cool-aide. And enought of these people vote, the GOP win. And this what people get according to http://www.distantocean.com/2008/04/chomsky-on-libe.html">Chomsky

There's no difference, really. I think they're the same thing. But you see, "libertarian" has a special meaning in the United States. The United States is off the spectrum of the main tradition in this respect: what's called "libertarianism" here is unbridled capitalism. Now, that's always been opposed in the European libertarian tradition, where every anarchist has been a socialist—because the point is, if you have unbridled capitalism, you have all kinds of authority: you have extreme authority.

If capital is privately controlled, then people are going to have to rent themselves in order to survive. Now, you can say, "they rent themselves freely, it's a free contract"—but that's a joke. If your choice is, "do what I tell you or starve," that's not a choice—it's in fact what was commonly referred to as wage slavery in more civilized times, like the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example

I think this person should be honest with themselves and admit they are wrong. But this person has drunk the kool-aid and they will be lots of angry cool-aid sippers will vote for these policies. And there will go the country because we belive that we can have unlimited economic freedom, but in reality, that economic freedom is illusion and we became slaves to our corporate masters who want us to drink the cool-aid.

Thus, goes America, into a state of permament plutocracy because cool-aid sippers had bought the lie of economic freedom.

[DJ13]

1. Im finding in recent years that most everyone who claims to be a Libertarian

..... is nothing more than a conservative Republican too cowardly (after Bush) to admit what they really are.

[droidamus2]

2. Or maybe

They are just Conservative Republicans that like to smoke pot!

[applegrove]

3. That's really true. You do see more people calling themselves libertarians now

that the neocons are hiding.