Hey, where the Libertarians? Anyone hear from them? What do they have to say about this crisis?

[Yavin4]

Where is that invisible hand?

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Rand Paul's been running his mouth-- but not making much sense.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The self proclaimed libertarian I know says this is all a scam

perpetrated by the "globalist world order" (the new and improved "new world order&quot .

Meaning Jews, the poor, liberals, communists, socialists, etc.

[Doreen]

6. You mean a repuke in a sheep skin.

[Thomas Hurt]

9. Oh yeah that is exactly what he is.

[Wounded Bear]

14. I tend to think of Libertarians as Repubs on steroids...nt

[livetohike]

3. If it happens to someone else, they don't care. If it

happens to them, they think everyone should care.

[SCantiGOP]

4. It may be working in the USA

Too few jobs for too many people?
Too many people and too much industrialization destroying the environment?

Solution: kill millions of people and destroy the economy with a plague that a private, profit-driven healthcare system is totally unprepared to prevent or mitigate.
Oh, and it helps if your political system has accepted unfettered capitalism as the ultimate goal of society, and that system is headed by an increasingly insane and incompetent ego-maniacal buffoon.

[ansible]

7. There are some environmentalists who are very, very happy with what's happening right now

[SCantiGOP]

8. I don't think that's the case

Mass death and poverty is not a sane environmental policy.

[Decoy of Fenris]

10. I can confirm what the above poster said.

Low key, but there are quite a few folks cheering on the virus that I've seen. From the far-right evangelicals to the far-left eco-terrorists, the virus is being hailed as a savior of humanity, and the higher the death count climbs, the happier they get. The right thinks it's a rapture, the left thinks its the planet protecting itself.

Me, I'm just glad that humanity's unified behind something for the first time in a century. Shame it takes this much death to accomplish.

[SCantiGOP]

11. I don't think we disagree

I qualified what I said with the word “sane.”
The people you are talking about don’t meet that criteria.
Wonder why the fundies don’t see this as a vengeful god’s response to selecting a totally immoral man who worships the golden calf (Wall Street) to lead them?

[Decoy of Fenris]

12. That's the thing. A lot of them are perfectly sane.

They're 'sane' to the point of being 'insane'. They see humanity as grievously overpopulated, along the lines of 'by the billions', and see this virus as a natural extension of our population growth. To some, it highlights the perils of globalization in a nationalized world (?) and to others, they're showcasing it as "Look what happens when we cut our carbon footprint, we need more of these outbreaks." Strictly speaking they're not wrong, and I wouldn't qualify them as insane, but cold and callous at the very least.

In regards to the fundies... Mate, there's absolutely no reasoning with -that- brand of crazy. At least the environmental extremists have some logic, callous as it is; fundies, you can't unwrap that bundle of bonkers at all.

[SCantiGOP]

13. I guess the fundies response makes sense

If we realize that they are not concerned with the Creator of the Universe but rather with their business model.
As far as the eco-terrorists, a lot of people really piss me off but I consider myself a strong environmentalist, but I am not willing to self-identify as a parasite on the planet.

[PA Democrat]

5. Grover Norquist is probably curled up in the fetal position

in his proverbial bathtub.