A Libertarian, is a neoconservative who is too ashamed to call himself a Republican anymore due to their astounding fiscal irresponsibility and corruption.
If Libertarians had their way, we'd take down all stop signs, stoplights, and sewer systems as 'unwarranted government interference' in our lives. We'd have to pay per call for police protection and ambulance service, and without a credit card, no service. Fact is, the emergence of megacompanies, oligopolies, unfettered business corruption, and
concentration of wealth, caused the imbalances which directly led to Herbert Hoover's Great Depression. And FDR's progressive polices and moderate regulation are what recovered our economy and in fact built this nation to greatness.
But concentration of wealth today is far worse than the 34% in the hands of the top 5% right before the Crash. Did you know that today
the wealthiest 5% of Americans own 60% of the nation's wealth? And that the bottom 40% of Americans own just 0.3%? This is a very
imbalanced and unstable situation.
It is a fact that the strong always use their strength to crush the weaker, to
eliminate competition rather than foster it. The strong become stronger, until we reach the only possible mathematical outcome, where you depend for your job, your car, your house, your food, your news, your entertainment, your
life, on one or two ultracorporations. Piss off WalmartExxxonFluorMicrosoftGMUSATodayKKRSony, and your
life is over.
Libertarianism is caveman economics, and we had advanced far beyond this although we have now
significantly regressed. Sure Libertarianism's simple and easy to understand, but it is not what built our nation. Every
single other developed nation in the world can afford to give
all their citizens
free university for the motivated, free
medical care, and a dignified retirement for their
seniors, and still often run a budget surplus. Yet our 'rich nation' can't afford this?!
Libertarianism is a
dangerous philosophy in an advanced world economy. Bond is not going to like my cynicism, but conservatives comprise some of the very top 1% in wealth plus most of the vast lower working-class in this nation. The welders, the factory workers, the truck drivers are conservative, and they are
the ones who loudest proclaim the rich should get more tax cuts, to give people the impression that they are amongst the rich. Here's a clue UrbanPDX: the wealthy learned a long time ago to NOT publicly advocate in their own radical self-interest, as it pisses everybody else off. This is why I know you are lower working-class.
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