ok but it was not just appeals for "some form of welfare state" that made this attractive to people between 2009 and 2015
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Democracy will tend to increase taxes on the uber-wealthy "libertarians" to fund the necessary social programs. Democracy is a threat to their wealth.
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wow - where/when did he say that?
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It's probably referring to this:https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ …
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Also, the famous uber-wealthy libertarians claim to be pro-free speech but only until their critics are dismantling them. Once that starts in earnest, they turn to authoritarian tendencies to quash it.
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Just like comedians. ;)
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I was going to say something to the effect of: Only those who (somehow) believe they are capable of not only being able to maintain their personal status quo but improve upon it without the aid of a nation state buy into libertarianism… What other foolishness will they believe?
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remember Justin Raimondo's "iron heel of liberty" tweet?
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Milton Friedman in apartheid South Africa warning against the horrors of one-person-one-vote, on the grounds voting unfairly privileged "special interests" over the true justice of the free market
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See also Chile and Indonesia
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