Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "A private libertarian city in Honduras" video.

  1.  @robinsss  Yeah right - build this in America where there's at least part of the government still functioning. Don't panic the Libertarians have a plan to make this happen in America.
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  2. My way of describing libertarian ideology is: "We demand the liberty to strip others of their liberty!" Mark Blyth the Political-Economist at Brown pointed out in an Economic History lecture to one of Stephanie Kelton's classes pointed out that at their core these minimalist government types want the government to do 1 thing and 1 thing only - protect their property rights or the right to protect their property by any means. It has its roots in nonsense of the American robber baron era where they just took what they wanted and cared nothing for the consequences to other people, but includes crap from people like Ayn Rand's and her philosophy of self interests before any one else. Its a sort of extreme Machiavellian concept of "if I get what I set out to get then nothing that happened getting there matters." Things like ethics and consequences mean nothing to these people. There's a great video by Simon Clarke (here on YT) about the lost decade where the interference by Libertarians was actually what cost us the battle with climate change when a couple of them in the Whitehouse scuttled all of George (the first 1) Bush's plans to battle climate change. It had little to do with fossil fuel and an awful lot to do with "the government shall not regulate" ideology of Libertarians.
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  3. Listen to these people - everything is market dynamics. Its utter nonsense that's driven western society to the brink of revolution due to wealth disparity. It favors a particular class of trader and ends up as a form of market driven feudalism where there are those who have power through finance and those who have no power through poverty. It has its roots in the nonsense of the American robber baron era where they just took what they wanted and cared nothing for the consequences to other people, but includes crap from people like Ayn Rand's and her philosophy of self interests before any one else. Its a sort of extreme Machiavellian concept of "if I get what I set out to get then nothing that happened getting there matters." Things like ethics and consequences mean nothing to these people.
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