Man, libertarians have been really showing thier ass lately
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Like many young men, I considered myself a libertarian for more than a few years. I read Ayn Rand, Mises, Hayek, and Schumpeter. I believed in individual responsibility, individual accountability, and individual rights. I believed in a small government, "social liberal, economic conservative," and all the other tripe.
It's all horseshit that relies on a small, educated, homogenous populace with a core set of shared values.
Impossible, in other words.
Today I don't consider myself a libertarian, a republican, or a conservative.
I'm an anti-leftist.
It's fine as a personal philosophy, it's terrible as political theory.
That's actually my stance, as mostly a libertarian.
Libertarianism is great as an ideal, not great as an answer to the problems that plague us. It has too many holes when it comes to gatekeeping. You need some level of nationalism, tribalism, protectionism, and even collectivism and racism, if you care about protecting an identity/people/country/values.
While some libertarians are capable of embracing those things, very few embrace all of them at the same time...and the movement in aggregate certainly doesn't.
If you can't identity what it is you want to protect, you're vulnerable to letting bad actors in to victimize you by using your own ideals against you and your people. "Individualism," while a good ideal, is not a good system to actually protect the freedom we all care about.
No Hoppe?
I believe I did, though I couldn't tell you what. I've never been that interested in the more philosophical stuff. I enjoyed Ayn Rand as it was easy (but long), and I think "Road to Serfdom" was the other book I remember strongly.
My "politics" can be summed up by the 14 Words.
This necessarily means enmity with another group as it just so happens kappa