Serious question--Anybody ever meet a right-libertarian from an economically deprived background?

[Jackpine Radical]

I'm on a nonpolitial professional listserv with a member who just quoted some Cato Institute nonsense (about liberalism promoting immorality or something) & announced in an OT discussion that he's a libertarian.

In previous OT discussions he has done a lot of ego posting about his prep school, his Ivy League doctorate, his blueblood ancestry, his acquaintance with the Rich & Famous of the East Coast, etc. Despite all his shallowness, he strikes me as more naive and stupid than actually evil, but thinking about it set me to wondering.

Might it be that a lot of libertarians manage to cling to their narrow, self-serving notions simply because they have never been mugged by reality?

[Warpy]

1. No, they're white bread suburban types

However, their parents are likely drowning in debt they'll never be able to pay off, so the far right libertarian can kiss any sort of inheritance goodbye and the way this country is going, they'll have to pay all the debts off or pass them on to their own children.

Debt peonage: giving libertarians just what they ask for without telling them what they're asking for.

[Paladin]

2. We all know that Rand Paul is a wealthy doctor's son. (nt)

[pnwmom]

3. Plenty of them. Low income people from red states -- think Clive Bundy's followers.

Many of them are far from privileged. Just deluded.

[REP]

4. Yes. My uncle and his son, for two

My uncle grew up in a home with precarious finances, to put it mildly; so was his son. My uncle was a paranoid schizophrenic and my cousin has been charged with Felony Elder Abuse (against another family member).

[Turbineguy]

5. Most libertarians do not know

that they cannot afford to be libertarians. Libertarianism cannot exist in a world that is actually libertarian.

Very few of us are predatory enough to do well in a libertarian world.

[LeftyMom]

6. You've never been west of the Rockies, have you?

Seriously, that describes almost everybody you'd meet in the intermountain west.