tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544217363787442756.post3548981654234133978..comments2023-06-01T10:01:35.172-04:00Comments on TPMAHOLICS: Chile is NOT a tea party nationAmikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635085661287993810noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544217363787442756.post-2892422056015923022010-10-14T13:25:32.235-04:002010-10-14T13:25:32.235-04:00Neither is the United States a teabagger nation. ...Neither is the United States a teabagger nation. They make up less than 20% of the population, though they get a lot of notice because they're incredibly noisy. (I mean that in both the volume sense and relative to the amount and quality of signal they produce.)<br /><br />Libertarianism is as meaningful as a badly raised three-year-old jumping up and down in the living room yelling "Me, me, me!" while adults are trying to have a conversation. And I apologize in advance to any three-year-olds who feel slighted by the comparison.<br /><br />If they were serious, if they truly believed what they claim, they'd "go Galt" as they perpetually threaten to do, leave civilized society, and go take up residence somewhere where they would necessarily begin from scratch, drilling wells, grading and paving roads, and all the other things needed for their ideal society. <br /><br />They won't.<br /><br />They're a bunch of freeloading thieves at heart. <br /><br />Any libertarian who was sincere would first renounce anything and everything society provides them before demanding that others give anything up.<br /><br />The "ideal" of libertarianism is at best staggeringly ignorant, and at worst cynically malignant. And its defenders will no doubt claim that it's because it's never yet been tried in pure form.<br /><br />Didn't we hear that about Soviet-style Communism? How'd that work?Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939468809703630844noreply@blogger.com