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To: Netizen
What does it feel like to be a libertarian?

It's a never-ending high you never come down off.

Mostly because you are on drugs all the time.

Being a libertarian means living with an almost unendurable level of frustration. It means being subject to unending scorn and derision despite being inevitably proven correct by events.

Seriously, though, this is more than a little cockeyed. As a libertarian you see all the failures of government and have an answer for them. So yes, you're pretty frustrated all the time.

But that's because government always acts. It isn't going to go away and it isn't going to stop doing what it wants to do. When it makes mistakes, you're the one who points them out first.

But if we really lived in a laissez-faire order, libertarians would be in a complacent fog and other people would be the Cassandras seeing and foreseeing catastrophes everywhere.

44 posted on 02/10/2009 1:37:47 PM PST by x
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To: x
It's a never-ending high you never come down off.Mostly because you are on drugs all the time.

I nearly fell off my chair when I read that. That's a good one!

59 posted on 02/11/2009 4:41:08 PM PST by curiosity
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