As the saying goes, first they ignore you, then they ridicule you.
Libertarians have now reached stage two, and the MSM are on the warpath
to discredit them along the usual lines -- you know, they are racists,
religious nuts, misogynists, conspiracy theorists, dope addicts, diet
crazies, sociopaths, health quacks, red-necked yokels, and people with
bad manners.
It is unfortunate that so many libertarians are using this occasion to blame and attack one another in connection with
this bad press. I am appalled by how many libertarians harbor vitriolic
hatred for other libertarians and by the sanctimony that is so much in
evidence in their declarations of fratricide.
Really, fellow
libertarian of any stripe whatsoever, do you honestly believe that your
particular libertarian sect does not harbor embarrassing members of its
own? Get a grip. And, for [heaven]'s sake, give up your illusions of
grandeur. Some of you are getting, as my father would have said, much
too big for your britches. (I would add, you know who you are, but I
fear that many of you really do not know.)
P.S. The state is the real enemy. Try to remember.
-- Robert Higgs
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