I Was a Card-Carrying Libertarian: Confessions of a Black Sheep Republican
A libertarian means more than just desiring low taxes and abortion rights – if you cannot understand and internalize the pledge of non-aggression then you can’t ever be a libertarian. If you can’t look honestly at the history of post-WWII U.S. foreign policy then you can’t ever be a libertarian. If you’re a dummy and think that Islamic fundamentalism grew as a response to “cultural inferiority” instead of as a response to the U.S. overthrow of a democratically elected secular leader and support for a torturing kleptocracy for 20 years then you can’t ever be a libertarian. It takes a basic sense of deceny and honesty which is why Stephen Green, Glenn Reynolds, etc were never real libertarians and is why real libertarians are glad to see them stop using an honerable political label for their wretched ideology.
