Reply #64: WRONG WRONG WRONG

[Cats Against Frist]

What we have NOW is corpo-fascism, cloaked in the guise of the "free market," which is actually a corporate state. The corporations bought your "big government" and turned it into a trillion dollar apparatus for funneling wealth to their cronies, and protecting that wealth.

Libertarianism is the furthest thing from corpo-fascism. You can't have corpo-fascism without a state. Beyond the state, it becomes the consumer/citizen/workers CHOICE if he or she is going to contribute his or her money, or his or her labor to corporations. With a state, you don't get a choice of whether to give Raytheon, a Christian Fundamentalist High-Tech Weapons producer, billions of dollars a year -- the corporations that bought your representatives get to make that decision. In a libertarian society, you would get to choose whether or not your money would go to Raytheon, and if you didn't want it to, you could send it off to a not-for-profit community organization that helps poor children. You wouldn't have to pump billions into prisons and drug interdiciton, and could give your money to treatment and local community activities for bored kids.

I don't think that libertarianism is perfect, but anyone who still believes in the system needs a big wake-up-call slap to the face. The corporations bought your big government, and now they have not only the money, but the rule of law.

Maybe if consumers, workers, etc., had a larger interest in their lives, and had to take some responsibility for themselves and their communities, and what they buy and what they waste, then maybe we wouldn't be so bad off. That's libertarianism.