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> Very different approaches can be reasonably proposed to solve the same issues by people with very different perspectives on the world. People who don't suppor
by 49531 6y ago
> Very different approaches can be reasonably proposed to solve the same issues by people with very different perspectives on the world. People who don't support - or even directly oppose - the actions you believe should be taken don't necessarily not care about the same things that you care about.
Sure, but we have a system where individual's earning potential is pitted against the general welfare of communities. When the state needs to generate tax revenue for social programs and infrastructure corporations will fight it. As a country the US has been hollowed out by this conflict. The issue isn't _how_ these problems get solved, but _if_.
Libertarianism as an ideology is born out of this dichotomy, sold as small-government means big individual. In reality small government just means big corporations.
- stillbourne 6y agoYou are absolutely correct. Libertarianism as an ideology wishes to abolish government welfare and return to the system of welfare capitalism that was the prevalent system of the late 19th and early 20th century known as the Gilded Age. We only need look at the things they have on their platform to understand their true intentions. The abolition of Labor Unions, decentralization of money printing, abolition of laws restricting monopolies, ending social security and income tax and demolishing the welfare state. All of these are laws and reforms that were put into place to protect people from debt slavery that was inherent in the system of the company towns.