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"As there is no legal or moral justification for supporting the Confederacy in the Civil War, it is impossible that there could be a libertarian one."

If you think the 2016 election was intense, you need to hear about the 1840 election.

"Sweden’s biggest social and economic successes took place when Sweden had a laissez-faire economy, and widely distributed wealth preceded the welfare state."

Trump is certainly challenging American institutions, but not in a libertarian way: http://bit.ly/2G9rgq0

What kind of libertarian are you? What moral theory underpins your political theory?

Are there differences between modern progressives and socialists?

TThe market process uses the tool of profit-and-loss accounting to steer entrepreneurs into economical decisions. Attempts to substitute another system for genuine capitalism will lead to unintended consequences."

"Those who defend the Confederacy in the name of liberty today must assume, against all historical evidence, that rationality and economic benefit would have otherwise trumped the exploitation and irrational hate that drove the institution of slavery, the rebellion to defend slavery, and the Jim Crow South to avenge slavery’s defeat. That the Southern states used the power restored to them after Reconstruction to keep their citizens in poverty and deny them their rights as American citizens is the best argument for the federal government in living memory.

"[T]here is no such thing as 'the public interest' except as the sum of the interests of individual men. And the basic, common interest of all men- all rational men- is freedom. Freedom is the first requirement of "the public interest"- not what men do when they are free, but that they are free. All their achievements rest on that foundation- and cannot exist without them. The principles of a free, non-coercive social system are the only form of 'the public interest.'”

"All socialism involves slavery."