Insight from - the appeal of libertarianism in youth today is a direct result of elite failure and terrible governance. Of course the answer is to scale back a system that cannot provide even basic services!
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Counterpoint: your premise is wrong and bad and factually unsupported.
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I've worked with local and national libertarian candidates and state parties for over a decade.
I've NEVER met a Libertarian who is advocating for letting corporations 'do what they want'.
Libertarians call to END corporate welfare and corporate favouring legislation.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but that's not a good argument.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_S
I think that the statement "Libertarians want less government regulation" is an objectively fair one.
Whether that translates to "Let corporations do what they want" is up to the person.
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I'm a libertarian and also haven't met a single other libertarian who was pro corporations exercising coercion. Generally speaking, libertarianism as far as I've seen it talked about involves minimizing the use of force, it's just that *most* force happens to be government.
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Right, but minimizing coercion at what scale? That is a much deeper question than most libertarians appreciate in my experience. I’m waiting for a 2.0 version of that retains the focus on liberty, but gets sophisticated about the problem of maximizing it.
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I agree a lot of libertarians don't think specifically about maximizing liberty in a greater sense, and rather are sort of reactionary to individual infringements on liberty.
I don't understand ‘s point. Libertarians try to maximize individual liberty by minimizing coercion (which mostly comes from the state). How does one maximize liberty beyond the individual? I'm not familiar with the concept of “group liberty“ if that's the idea.
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True, much of the literature and talking heads spoke primarily on the individualism tip. But that does not negate the validity of our calls for transparency, accountability
We call to stop allowing the cronyism running rampant in D.C., including the political industrial complex