Originally Posted by Bill8

Slutboat you don't understand libertarian theory and policy - but thats not uncommon, almost none of the people who call themselves libertarian actually ARE libertarian, not can they describe libertaraian theory and policy.

However, some year ago a fairly famous article was written, Why Libertarians Can't Govern, which does a good job of describing why libertarianism can't work in a society like ours.

Basically, libertarianism requires a well educated population with roughly equal access to good and accurate information - and our society is the exact opposite of that, we are incredibly poorly educated, and our economy and media and social systems all depend on UN-equal access to information.

So, libertarians can't govern. We'd have to spend 50 years just to prepare our society for the simpler kinds of libertarian governance.

But, we could incorporate some libertarian principles into our current system to some benefit.

Thing is, we won't - probably ever - because doing so would take government handouts away from the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex and other deeply corrupted anti-libertarian government/private collusions, and the corruption there goes too deep for them to allow libertarian principles to be passed into law or enforced.

But, Ron Paul is not libertarian - so that pretty much is that.