Socialist Left and Fascist Right

[ndrosen]

Daniel Raisbeck has an article in Reason on Latin American politics, describing how conservatism is discredited by right-wingers who don’t much respect liberty, or follow free market policies, leading to the Left coming to power, which, as can be seen in Venezuela and elsewhere, is not always a good thing for the poor and downtrodden folks whom the leftists claim to speak for.

What Senor Raisbeck does not say is that this could also apply to North America, where the party of Reagan became the party of Trump, and then lost to free-spending, pro-regulation Joe Biden. I am not happy with the direction my country seems to be taking.

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[ndrosen]

Some libertarians regard me as unorthodox for being a Georgist; people like me sometimes call ourselves Geolibertarians.

I think that David Friedman said it well: libertarianism is an attempt to apply a set of ethical and practical insights to a complicated world.