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Mods: I realise libertarianism is a common topic here, but I think my view is a sufficiently original one.
Libertarianism is the One Weird Trick For Solving Any Issue, Politicians HATE Us! of politics. It reduces many of the most complex problems in the world to a set of answers concise enough that they can fit on the back of a business card (isolationism, tiny government, bare minimal taxation).
There are quite a few CMVs here from people arguing about the effectiveness of libertarian solutions in the real world, but I want to go further. I believe that most libertarians simply do not care about the real world of the effects their intended policies would have. Rather, the primary goal of most libertarians is to feel like they have the 'correct' answer, and the primary draw of libertarianism is that it provides a singularly simple way to get this feeling.
I have honestly yet to see a proposed policy solution from a libertarian which addresses the complexities of the real world, only a stream of restatements of the core beliefs. All healthcare and entitlement debates are reduced to "taxation is theft", all defense and national security debates are reduced to "withdraw and isolate", and all economic debates are reduced to "deregulate", with no sense of reality or nuance. When libertarians defend this with "well of course I don't have a developed policy, because the government shouldn't have any policy on the topic" it's invariably followed up by the nebulous phrase "market solutions" (often backed up by a misinterpretation of the First Welfare Theorem), with zero information on how these markets would actually develop in the real world.
Ultimately, every libertarian I've ever met has been marked by the same lack of humility (I've never heard a libertarian say "I don't know the answer") and oversimplification, leading me to the view that their primary goal is to feel correct and "win" debates, rather than a genuine attempt to engineer real world solutions of any kind.
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