Plagiarized.
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"Never before have so many been so intimidated by so few with so little political power."
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I thought your argument is that libertarians were "rising?"
But here is what is scary about Libertarians: they attempt to recruit by aiming for the selfish, the racist, and exactly the low-information voters you attempt to parody above; and then they work for popular support towards many social policies that actively make things worse. The Goldwater Republicans and their cutting of taxes that support infrastructure; the push for and successful deregulation of banks; the neoliberal privitization and globalization schemes- these can all be attributed to strains of libertarian thought; the Chicago School of Economics and their impact on monetary policy can also see massive returns in the dissolution of the middle class and the enrichment of the top .01%.
Libertarians also create a vicious circle of criticizing government policy, then working to put people in place who will do everything in their power to make government worse- so as to come back around and say,
See? Government IS the problem! I proved it!
I can respect a few elements of the libertarian platform: decriminalization of drugs, respecting the privacy rights of individuals, a desire to make sure government power has checks- in regards to seizing property or spying on its citizenry- and an abhorrence for foreign military campaigns. But the rest of their platform is mostly dog-whistles for racists (States Rights!), business interests that don't want their industry regulated, anti-government zealots, and powerful interests who want to privatize water, electricity generation, roads, social security, medicine, and anything else the government has a hand in.
From the "Low Information Voter" graphic:
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The National Socialist Party had nothing to do with Socialism, right?
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Does the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea have something to do with Democracy, then?