Libertarianism is the concept that government as a concept is a malevolent one and can’t be trusted and human beings are far better being left alone to run their own affairs.
It’s a belief usually held either by those who simply don’t want to pay tax or by those who do feel their freedoms are infringed upon.
Now I think there’s certainly truth to the idea that it feels like a bit of a piss take that money we earn is taken from us and spent by people who don’t seem to know what the fuck they are doing, and I can certainly empathise with the lack of trust in a media ecosystem that is divisive, selective in what it tells you and is more geared towards ratings than information dispersal.
Ultimately though we’ve had six years or more of disrupters, people who have said they will fight back against the vested interests, the status quo etc and they have either been even more corrupt than the people who have come before them or their simplistic ideas have come into contact with reality.
This of course will cause the same people who supported them to double down, and claim that some deep state conspiracy confounded these people rather than the gravity of the fact that two plus two doesn’t equal five.
And the question I have for libertarians is, if government is essentially just human beings….fallible, corruptable, become addicted to the idea of authority over others. What the fuck is actually stopping people from getting together and imposing might makes right on those weaker than themselves.
Essentially what you’re fighting is not interconnected theories of clandestine cabals of power, you’re fighting human nature
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Originally Posted by Letters
