Will the U.S. and Argentine flirtation with Libertarianism end in disaster?

Usually it's Republican politicians bragging that they're more libertarian than conservative,

but this time it's a Democrat Bobby

Kennedy Jr was reportedly thinking of running for president on the

Libertarian Party ticket. This bizarre experiment of Libertarianism now

officially a political party with ballot

access in all 50 states, has been promoted by the billionaire class ever since World War II,

and it's literally killing some of us along with threatening our Democratic Republic.

The reporter Mark Ames describes or documents how back in the 1940s a real estate lobbying group

came up with the idea of creating a new political party

to justify deregulating the real estate and finance industries so they could make

more money. This new Libertarian Party would give an ideological and political cover to their goal of becoming government free,

and they developed an elaborate pretense of governing philosophy around it.

Their principal argument was that if everybody acted separately and

independently in all cases with maximum selfishness such behavior

would actually benefit society.

There would be no government needed beyond an army and a police force

and a court system to defend the rights of property owners.

It was a freakish twisting of Adam Smith's reference to the invisible hand that regulated trade among nations.

They pretend that things will simply run themselves, but they're wrong.

Guiding government leaves a huge power vacuum that will inevitably be filled by the nation's olics. guiding government

be filled by the nation's oligarchs.

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