Have you ever
noticed that you seem to see either of two types of Libertarians? Type 1 is the nose picking , gun totin' inbred
who wants to be left absolutely alone to do whatever he wishes whenever he
wishes. This type presents as a sort of mentally defective sociopath - true to
type with regard to his or her total
lack of concern for anyone but themselves or those in their immediate sphere of
interest, while mentally incapable of
carrying the whole thing off in the manner of, say, a Donald Trump. An example
of type one would be a Cliven Bundy. A subset of this is the functioning
sociopath who, attempts to stay below the radar for other reasons than mental insufficiency - say, a concern for keeping their sexual abuse
of adolescents as far from scrutiny as possible. This of course is the Warren Jefts
model.
The type A
Libertarian is frequently of a lower income level, consistent with the general
lack of concern for others coupled with
a lack of community (large C, implying isolation and general distrust of any
other authority or empathy for any but his own.)
Much harder to
spot, because of their natural intelligence and social camouflage skills is the
type B Libertarian. While they speak in codes, such as "reduced government
spending," or "freedom of choice", the message below the flak is
similar. Type "B"s would have us believe that anything the government
ever has done or will do is probably unnecessary and would be better done by
private agencies. Some extremists of this type try to become "Sovereign Citizens",
claiming independence from such things as taxes or licensure, while using infrastructure set in
place by the government they profess to hate. These, like the Cliven Bundys, never seem to be much smarter than a fifth
grader and exhibit marginal social skills. They only exist in America because
any other government would liquidate
them.
The more difficult
Type B looks just like the run of the mill patriotic citizen, has social skills
and is even harder to spot because, while they bitch and moan about "government excesses", "patriotism",
and "liberty" (all code, sort
of like a Masonic handshake), they all
seem to be very well off financially. In a sort of negative feedback scenario, the more financially secure these
folks are, the louder they squeal. Many of these folks also tout their own "Christian
values", while exhibiting a staggering lack of concern for any but
themselves and their immediate cadre in a most unchristian fashion.
The type B is
hard to spot, but can sometimes be detected by use of softer and more subtle code
words like "them", or "those people" when referring to persons of another ethnic or religious
point of view. While the type B may never actually use the word
"nigger" or "faggott" publically, they can say
"them" and make it sound like either. Type Bs and type As do have one great
commonality, generally, a love of guns, which may be the only concept they care
for other than themselves. If one looks
backward in our nation's history for examples of these types, there are two
groups who seem to be precursors. The first were those in the old west who,
before the advent of local law, ruled fiefdoms by the gun. The other would be
Southern business men of the post-reconstruction era of the 1880s and 90s, who
ruled communities with no regard for law or fairness, while convincing poor whites
that poor(er) blacks were the enemy . Like I said - sociopaths.
There does seem
to be an emerging type C, however, who, disgusted by Congressional malfeasance are tired of funding those who, Sociopaths but definitely not Libertarian, seem to glory
in stalling and obstructing efforts of persons of both liberal and conservative
points of view to achieve some rapprochement in government. Examples of their
ire (or rapt adoration) include Sen. Ted
Cruz , Rush Limbaugh, James Carvill, and their ilk.
In summary, it
seems to me (this is an opinion piece, not a research paper) that what Libertarians
really want is all the perks (infrastructure, military protection, worldwide
economic clout) without paying a fair
share. And yes, that means calling
bullshit on all flat tax scams, which far from being fair, are regressive with
regard to lower earners. Data shows that
the gap between wage earners and their employers has continued to widen in the last 40 years, which reflects the very
concept which causes Libertarians (like the Walton heirs) to genuflect. Life in
the state of Libertarian nature for the
lower levels of society would be "nasty, brutish and short." (my apologies to Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan")
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