John Hasnas, associate professor vid McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, har skrivit en uppföljning till Charles Murrays What It Means to Be a Libertarian: What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian - ur texten [not: Kassandra som omnämns i texten begåvades av en hoppfull Apollon med förmågan att se in i framtiden. När det visade sig att hon var den typen som inte ansåg att en accepterad drink innebär automatisk horisontalhambo så förbannade han henne med att ingen skulle tro på hennes profetior och förlöjliga henne för dem]:
How does it feel to be a libertarian? Imagine what the internal life of Cassandra must have been and you will have a pretty good idea.
Imagine spending two decades warning that government policy is leading to a major economic collapse, and then, when the collapse comes, watching the world conclude that markets do not work.
Imagine continually explaining that markets function because they have a built in corrective mechanism; that periodic contractions are necessary to weed out unproductive ventures; that continually loosening credit to avoid such corrections just puts off the day of reckoning and inevitably leads to a larger recession; that this is precisely what the government did during the 1920's that led to the great depression; and then, when the recession hits, seeing it offered as proof of the failure of laissez-faire capitalism.
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If you’d like a taste of what it feels like to be a libertarian, try telling people that the incoming Obama Administration is advocating precisely those aspects of FDR’s New Deal that prolonged the great depression for a decade; that propping up failed and failing ventures with government money in order to save jobs in the present merely shifts resources from relatively more to relatively less productive uses, impedes the corrective process, undermines the economic growth necessary for recovery, and increases unemployment in the long term; and that any "economic" stimulus package will inexorably be made to serve political rather than economic ends, and see what kind of reaction you get. And trust me, it won’t feel any better five or ten years from now when everything you have just said has been proven true and Obama, like FDR, is nonetheless revered as the savior of the country.
Det ska direkt sägas att jag inte delar hans "it feels bad"-attityd; liberalismen är för mig livsbejakande i grunden - världen är inte ett nollsummespel, lycka är positivt och individen har ett självklart värde, men det är klart frustrerande att så många vägrar att öppna ögonen för verkligheten.
Och undrar någon över tillvaron som "liberal" - \ˈli-b(ə-)rəl\ - i USA så förklarar Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Cameron Diaz och några till sin syn på tillvaron i sin pledge till Obama:
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