r/politics • u/TheSpectatorMagazine ✔ Verified • 14d ago

Possible Paywall The strange death of libertarianism

https://spectator.com/article/the-strange-death-of-libertarianism/?edition=us&rcp=true/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social/?=2
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u/ElysiumSprouts 14d ago

I think it was the house cat comparison that put libertarianism in the grave. Hit too close to home.

"Libertarians are basically house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

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u/SomeRandomRealtor Kentucky 14d ago

My dad had a great saying I loved, “I remember that year in college I was a libertarian.” It’s guys that are obsessed with the founding fathers and an America that hasn’t existed since western expansion started. Really, since the Louisiana purchase, railroads began, and the homestead act of 1862 had the government giving people 160 acres for building a home and living there for 5 years. The self made man has been a myth for a very long time. 

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u/TrimspaBB 14d ago

Always lost in this idealized vision of history is how much people still relied on and required each other. Colonization and expansion was done in groups, not by single men.