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Quote by: The Sexorcist  I'm not trying to invalidate anything, I'm pointing out the major flaw with Libertarianism is that the correctly identify government tyranny, but fail to see the obvious tyranny of absolute free-market capitalism, that is, the tyranny of the rich over the poor. |
I'm just responding to the original article--that libertarianism as an ideology deserves none of the blame for the actions of the Bushies. I am not a libertarian myself. However, free-market capitalism in practice does not lead to "tyranny of the rich over the poor". Rather, nations closer to capitalism have had a vast growth in wealth for both rich and poor in the last 2 centuries, while nations further from capitalism have had much less growth.