Trump's Disastrous COVID-19 Response Exposes Libertarianism As A Complete Lie Republicans have told

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Trump’s Disastrous COVID-19 Response Exposes Libertarianism As A Complete Lie Republicans have told us for decades that government was the problem and now we’re all paying the price for their arrogance.13 hr61


by Justin Rosario at the Banter

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/trumps-disastrous-covid-19-response

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Until the MAGA mob and Bernie Bros started competing for “World’s Most Annoying Group of Entitled White Men,” the hands down undisputed champions were libertarians. 

The perfect intersection of arrogance and ignorance, libertarians smugly proclaim the superiority of their ideology from on top the mountains of privilege their skin color, gender, and happenstance of socioeconomic birth handed to them. They imagine having scaled these heights themselves, fully embracing the myth of the self-made whatever, without mentioning their paid for college tuition and cushy job at the law firm courtesy of a “family friend”.

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Without the government acting as a “shipping clerk,” the extra ventilators GM is producing will not go where they are most needed. Instead, they will go where the money is. That will kind of work for a little while because the hardest hit places right now are big cities with the resources to pay. But once the virus starts slamming smaller cities and more rural areas without resources, they’re going to be mightily screwed.

Later, at some point, the larger cities will pass their peak and won’t need as many ventilators. But where to send them then? Who is going to keep track of all the hot spots and determine the best place to allocate resources? States don’t have access to all of the information the federal government does. 

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. That's why there isn't one viable Libertarian state or country.

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It was tried twice, once in I believe Idaho and once in Central America.

Both times, it was an abject failure, because the premise is that Libertarians are self-affecting, which means that they all want to be the top dog, and there will always be tension or in-fighting with leadership.

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[pbmus]

2. Kleptocratic Kakistrophic Klusterfuc

[Progressive Jones]

3. +1

[not fooled]

4. And yet

billions have been spent by some of the most execrable members of society to con the majority into thinking government is evil. And it has worked.

I wish the news media did a better job of making clear that most of the failures of red don's addled response can be traced to the underlying libertarian ideology informing the decision making, i.e. don't let the federal government be effective.

[calimary]

5. I always felt libertarians were really republi-CONS

who were too ashamed to admit it in public. The name “libertarian” lets them cling to their wretched “philosophy” on stealth mode. They can push their cockamamie gospel of selfishness under the radar that way.