Zuckerberg says he's a libertarian. What's that? A new profile of megal

billionaire Mark Zuckerberg in last week's New York Times identifies America's

richest millennial. He owns one-fiftieth of all millennial wealth in the US as a

libertarian quote privately mr zuckerberg now considers his personal

politics to be more like libertarianism or classical liberalism according to people who have spoken

to him recently.

That includes a hostility to regulations that restrict business and embrace of free markets and

globalism and an openness to social justice reforms but only if a stop

short of what he considers far left progressivism.

Zuck of course isn't the only one. It's high fashion across the GOP to claim your libertarian credentials.

Ron and now Rand Paul turned it into a money-making scam and most all the Putin

caucus and the GOP love to talk up libertarianism as do multiple right-wing billionaires.

Senator Mike Leeper claims a self a libertarian and has for years.

We see it writ large in the rhetoric of Republican members of Congress.

And conservative pundits who argue that shutting the government down

is a good thing because most government functions are unnecessary or woke.

So let's take a look at how libertarianism would work out in America

and where it came from in the first place. Generally speaking, libertarians don't

believe in democracy which they say is mob rule and should be replaced by the magic of the marketplace.

Or at least the magic of people made rich by the marketplace running the country's

essential services. Here's the one question that always stops libertarians dead in their tracks when they come on or call into my radio TV program to proclaim the wonders of their political ideology.

Please name one country anywhere in the world, anytime in the last 7,000 years where

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