Every time I get into an argument with a Libertarian, I just want to scream. It's not because their talking points about 'Big Gubmint' are total bullshit, mind you. But rather, because so many of these 'Libertarians' repeat this talking point verbatim and give us no solutions besides the usual get rid of x or privatize y that you'd normally hear from the mouths of Republicans.
They claim to be in favor of freedom while pushing policies that would barbarically curtail freedom for minorities, the disabled and anyone or anything that they feel doesn't deserve freedom. They more or less have their way with the Voting Rights Act considering all the horseshit many state governors have pulled over the last 2 years because a moron like Antonin Scalia shouted that the VRA was just a 'racial entitlement' from the rooftops.
They HATE the Civil Rights act because according to them, it was an attack on the 'Free Market', yet another magical unicorn that does not exist and never will. They also hate the ADA for the same reason because they want to be able to hire and fire whoever they want, whenever they want for whatever reason they want because Free Market. Or worse, they start whining about the so-called Non Aggression Principle.
Speaking of the 'Free Market', some Libertrolls have even had the gall to claim that the Free Market would have ended slavery and educated the population until the Big Bad Gubmint came in and forced the privileged class to do what they should have done in the first place.
What they seem to forget is that a government is supposed to act based on the will of the people, not the powerful as they want it to be. How else do you think things like Social Security, Medicare, The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act came to be law in the first place? It sure as hell wasn't because the Gubmint said 'Okay, how else can we stifle the creativity of the Free Market today?' It was because the people DEMANDED these things and because the government saw a need for these things.
Libertarians also completely ignore parts of recent history that disagree with their single villain ideology. They ignore the fact that the last 36 years has been a period of deregulation and shrinking government that began with Reagan. In fact, the government is smaller than it has been in decades, but for Libertarians, government can never be small enough.
And just to state the obvious, they conveniently ignore the fact that the very internet that they troll on started out as a government service called the ARPANET. Some of them even hate the idea of Net Neutrality, at least the Christian ones do because...well, Free Market.
Let's just be honest about Libertarianism: It offers nothing but a two tiered system where the rich white trust fund kids can do what they want, when they want, where they want to whoever they want with no recourse for those harmed by their childish actions and policies. They want minorities, disabled, gay and transgender people to remain second or even third class citizens with no means by which to escape such peonage because they believe empowering any of them via law or regulation demanded by the people at large offends their god, the Free Market.
I realize this is a long winded rant and that some stuff will probably need to be corrected, but I'm sick of the Birchers having their cake and eating it too. When you look at their rhetoric and measure it according to their actions, it's very easy to see that most of them have no understanding of civics, government or society whatsoever. And those who do are the same people who feed them the very lies that all but destroy any hope of civil discourse.
I guess I'll end it here before this ends up being several pages long.
See you around,
Homer