The End of Libertarianism?
Hardly. We are witnessing the death throes of statism, which I expect to lose it’s command of the world in the next 2 to 5 decades. They can only fool people so long, and we are working day and night to destroy them. We have the knowledge and the tools and we are actively building a better future. Non-state actors, soft power, and individualism are continually increasing in world importance and the state as we know it is struggling to keep its grip on progress. It will fail.
Some idiot apparently wrote an article saying how the recent failures of the corporate state are the fault of libertarians, who are some of the most vocal opponents of the corporate state. Anthony Gregory does an excellent job of tearing apart said idiot:
When someone says the biggest government in the world represents the absence of government, or that politicians and bureaucrats made the wrong decisions because they had a “libertarian” ideology that was skeptical of their ability to make the right decisions, you know something doesn’t add up. When they associate Bush’s government with laissez-faire, when it has been much less so even than Clinton’s, and blame its non-existent deregulation, you know their argument is inherently incoherent.
Those who have embraced sound free-market economics have been warning about the housing bubble, the impending problems with the dollar, and the precarious nature of our financial system for a long time.
Gregory does consider Ron Paul to be a libertarian, which I do not think is the best description for Paul’s position. However, Paul is the only member of Congress who both understands Austrian economics and cares about the economy outside of its ability to fuel the plans of the political class. For this reason his insights and warnings are valuable.
Fuck the Fed! Free the Markets – Free the People!
