Why does progressivism hate libertarianism so much? They have a lot in common. Open borders, freedom of migration, unconstrained freedom for capital, no policing, no nation-state, no army, no war on drugs. So many affinities, yet progressives detest libertarians.
The reason, I believe, is that libertarians support all these things on principle. They don’t see themselves as morally superior. And for progressives, moral superiority is the entirety of the game. Libertarians spoil the whole deal for progressives. If you can be for all these things and not constantly point out to everybody how exceptionally virtuous you are, then why do progressives do it so much? Like a woman with Botox, fillers and hair extensions who despises a naturally pretty woman, progressives hate libertarians for giving the game away.
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Unless Mamdani, Warren, AOC and Bernie are not representative Progressives by your definition, you are 180 degrees from correctly perceiving Progressives’ attitude about unrestrained capitalism.
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Attitude or words? Yes, they give a lot of promises about increasing welfare. But they do the exact opposite. I heard garbage is already not being collected and the homeless are already dying in the streets of NYC. What matters more, reality or words? Why do you believe the words these people say instead of the things they actually do?
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Tell that to all the lenders tortured for years by Warren’s Orwellian named: “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau”. All of the egregious compliance costs of course, by necessity, passed on to borrowers and consumers, making everything more expensive.
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I’m sure there’s a whole list of ways in which some people made out like bandits as a result of this. Capital accumulates upwards.
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Libertarians: want all that stuff, but don’t want to control anybody else.
Progressives: want all that stuff, but also want to police everybody else’s behavior down to the most minute grammatical inflection.
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Exactly. This is where the virtue part comes in. Once you get to the point where the opposing worldview is immoral, you’ll have to dedicate yourself to stamping out the immorality.
Libertarians take on the “thou shall not judge” position while progressives want to be the judge, the jury, and most crucially the executioner.
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Libertarians obsess over how intellectually superior they think they are. It’s why they expect they:d come out on top in the anarchy they wish for.
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So true. This is the biggest downfall of libertarians. They think they are very special cookies.
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Libertarians are all about “live and let live.” Progressives hate that; they wanna tell you how to live very badly.
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