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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The most notable and odious characteristic of "libertarianism" is that its really just an excuse for navel gazing while the world burns. Opposition to doing anything. The Berners are really good at this, too, but based on a different set of beliefs. Long and short, don't work on improving healthcare because (a) waiting for the market to do it is better, screw the dead people; or (b) waiting for the state to do it or set up a single payor to do it is better, screw the dead people.
And if anyone goes and tries to, say, improve healthcare, well, they're just going to cause more harm than good because democracy / capitalism / the system / the establishment / your navel sucks.
While the above post is just too damn long and wandering to read all of, it's a good illustration of the whole problem.
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Another great case in point these days is the teacher rebellion.
The endless desire to genuflect to lower taxes means advocating people get paid shitty wages. In a world where you don't have an economy without education, the Red States have been killing themselves for the last couple of generations because of their fealty to the anti-tax religion.
I don't care what someone's ideology or religion is, in the 21st century, if you can't run a school system, balance its budget, and attract decent talent to teach, you shouldn't be anywhere near government, anywhere in the world.
