Why Libertarians Are Worse Than Liberals
Instapundit made me explode again today. http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/127073/ I was so outraged I sent him a letter and while composing it I figured the answer to why I despise libertarians so much more than liberals. This is my letter to Prof. Reynolds.
Cutting spending 43% and getting social issues off the GOP platform works for you? Great now please tell me how? You’re basically describing Schwarzenegger’s original platform, you know how well that worked out.If we have these massive spending cuts, how do we pay for the lack of social reforms. 1 out of 3 children are currently born out of wedlock, mostly the government pays for them. After this grand spending blow up who pays for those kids? And who pays for the drug treatments or incarcerations statistics tell us a large number of them will need? Who pays for the ever growing VD epidemic? Who pays for the incredibly expensive AIDS treatment? Who pays for abortions? Tell me please how we square this circle?If you are going to tell me in that cutsey libertarian pie in the sky fable We The People are going to make these people pay for themselves, consider me laughing in your face. Americans are not going to be able to stand by and watch the excesses of social liberalism play out in impoverished children and keep those spending cuts we all need so much.Social liberalism fiscal conservatism sounds so good. I was a fan of it myself when I was much younger. The problem always is that social liberalism is very expensive.
This I realized is why libertarians are worse than liberals. Liberals at least accept there will be a giant cost from the sexual bacchanalia they have let loose on the western world. Liberals know someone must pay for the bastard children, drug rehabs, venereal diseases and abortions. Because liberals “were promised there would be no math” liberals imagine all this can be paid for by taxing the “rich.” Indeed the cost of social liberalism is a feature not a bug. The sexual bacchanalia has infected the nation with a plethora of expenses that liberals can demand more and bigger government to cure.
It is the libertarian who is the true fraud. It is the libertarian that imagines all the social liberalism will come without a price. It is the libertarian that imagines illegitimacy, vd, abortion, drug abuse will just somehow pay for themselves. It is the libertarian that wants all the indulgences of liberty without the responsibilities. Without the responsibilities liberty will always lead to serfdom.
Liberals destroyed the social fabric of the country on purpose, in order to erect a giant government edifice to pay for all the resulting problems. Libertarians want to remove the edifice while doing nothing about stopping the problems. That is why the social liberal/fiscal conservative paradigm is doomed to fail.
