re: #222 Blind Frog Belly White

DINGDINGDING!! We have a winner! Libertarians and Libertarian-leaning Conservatives want to live in the modern America that Liberalism built and not pay for it. They want roads, they want police, fire, and national defense, they want disaster relief (if the disaster hits them); they don’t want people begging in the streets, they don’t want the economy going through the cycles of boom and crash it went through before 1930, they don’t want poor people dying in the streets, they don’t want old people living in cardboard boxes under bridges.

They just have no idea how to achieve that without the modern state, and they get to believe their silly fantasies that they can have all this and no taxes because nobody will ever actually put that into action.

Years ago I read a book about the Long Term Capital Management crisis that almost brought down the entire world economy. IIRC, one of the key employees was basically a libertarian Ayn Rand dudebro. He complained about government until it was the only thing that stood between him and personal bankruptcy and total chaos — and then he wanted help.

If we faced a similar crisis today, I don’t think Trump would be of particular help though the Goldman Sachs crooks in his Cabinet may actually know what to do.