Why Be Libertarian?

theCL  2011-07-06  Activism, Libertarian, Murray Rothbard, Philosophy, Politics

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  • Country Thinker July 7, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Wonderful piece. Although I had not read it, his theory is similar to what I expressed earlier this year in my piece on education. Fully privatized education should be the goal, but the strategic plan as to how to achieve that end is a different matter entirely.

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    • theCL July 9, 2011 at 12:51 pm

      I think this is where many people misunderstand arguments that folks like myself make. I advocate goals, not process. Because the process is irrelevant until we're clear about what we want to achieve.

      In terms of schooling, fully privatized education IS the goal. If I could push a button, I would. Knowing that this button doesn't exist and that nothing happens overnight doesn't change a thing.

      Way too often in politics today, we're guilty of "hopelessly confusing the desired goal with a strategic estimate of the probable outcome." We put the cart before the horse and congratulate ourselves being so "pragmatic." The conservative movement has been doing this for at least the last 60 years, yet they still can't figure out why the federal government continues to grow non-stop at an alarming rate.

      When you go from abolishing the New Deal to simply tweaking it for cost efficiency, you lose. Maybe that's a step in the right direction, I don't know, but once it became the goal instead of absolute repeal, the battle against the welfare state was lost.

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