Difference between revisions of "What Is Wrong With Libertarianism"
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* [[Mistake Robustness For Fragility]] | * [[Mistake Robustness For Fragility]] | ||
With all the ranting about how we're going to go bankrupt, become a dictatorship, and other such doomsaying, it's really puzzling how the USA has lasted 200+ years without this happening already. Everything is a slippery slope to them, and they don't want to hear about feedback mechanisms that might derail their rant. | With all the ranting about how we're going to go bankrupt, become a dictatorship, and other such doomsaying, it's really puzzling how the USA has lasted 200+ years without this happening already. Everything is a slippery slope to them, and they don't want to hear about feedback mechanisms that might derail their rant. | ||
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| + | [[Ignore Equality And Justice]] | ||
| + | Markets do nothing for equality and justice, so libertarians say they must be sour grapes. Even worse, markets create inequality and injustice: slavery is a classic example. Most major political issues have equality and justice dimensions which libertarians ignore because their ideology has no solution. Education? | ||
* [[Irrational Fear Of Socialism]] | * [[Irrational Fear Of Socialism]] | ||
