We cannot know what reality in reality is real.
What crap.
The reality you perceive and the reality libertarians perceive may be different
The reality is that Libertarian positions are largely idealistic beyond any hope of redemption. One need only look so far as the Libertarian positions on taxes, foreign policy, healthcare -- you pick the subject.
It is not that I don't agree with some of the Libertarian suggestions; it is, rather, than I fully comprehend the politics of the situation, and what can and cannot be done. I have, for example, for years been a proponent of the National Sales Tax replacing the 16th Amendment. But I understand that it isn't going to happen. Not until the Social Security tax revolt happens, which is likely a good 30 years out.
I just don't believe in utopian solutions. While it may be fun to speculate, I believe reality is absolute. You, evidently, see reality as something different for different people.
I don't, by the way, accuse Libertarians of lacking intellect, as I do Liberals -- so in that sense they're different. My remarks as to the two being "the same" really pertained to the inability of both to distinguish what is realistically feasible from what is not -- so perhaps my statement went too far. But the goals of neither make sense when you superimpose them on the existing political/economic system. |
