This may come as a shocker, but the principles that any politician claim sooner or later tend to crumble when faced with the realities of government. In the cas

This may come as a shocker, but the principles that any politician claim sooner or later tend to crumble when faced with the realities of government. In the case of libertarian principles, what you find is that the core of the principles that survive the governing machine is but to relieve the rich of taxation and other cumbersome regulation. The pretty principles live on in the rhetoric, but any objective onlooker can not avoid perceiving them as hollow to the point of deception.