Libertarians are anarchists who would lose in a knife fight.

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rocketpig said:

Squilliam said:

 The biggest failing IMO of liberals is that they don't understand incentives and what drives people to actually succeed and in my personal experience the libertarians need to share the liberals political distrust of larger corporations and their ability to distort the free market.

100% spot-on. My biggest beef with Libertarianism is its faith that big business will do the right thing but big government will not. It makes no sense.

What makes you think Libertarians have faith that Big Corporations will do the right thing? We don't. We want government to make sure they don't dump medical waist in rivers, and for them to make sure they don't make people work 16 hours days in 160 degree heat.

But we also think the best way to make a large corrupt corporation small, is by not funding them. The worst way, is to give someone they can buy off enough power to give them what they want.

Good example, is Wall Street. You have two opposing ideologies in Washington, and both have been very good for Wall Street Execs. The best way you could have really taken those corrupt assholes down, is if they had no one to turn to when they got in trouble. In my perfect government, that would have been the case.

Republicans and Democrats are far better for corrupt corporations, then Libertarians.