It’s hard to read libertarians without concluding that they’ve never been out of the country— perhaps never out of the suburbs. They don’t know what Latin American rule by the elite looks like; they don’t know any way of running an industrial economy but that of the US; they don’t know what an actually oppressive government looks like; they’ve never experienced a depression; they’ve never lived in a slum or experienced racial discrimination. At the same time, they have a very American sense of entitlement: a gut feeling that they’ve earned the prosperity they were born into, that they owe the community nothing, that they deserve to have whatever they want, that no one should stand in their way. In short, they’re spoiled, and they’ve evolved a philosophy that they should be spoiled.
What’s wrong with libertarianism (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics) (via stfuconservatives)
They have never been elected, they hold no office. They exist only in theories and ideas of how things "should" be. In the real world, they would get their ass handed to them. Atlas Shrugged is not a political platform, it's fiction.
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