system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
“Libertarian ideology and Unfettered capitalism and deregulation”

Every libertarian on earth would point out how the current system is so so far from that description it’s laughable.

Environmental laws, worker laws, regulation on drugs, on alcohol, on driving, mandating xyz, governmental collusion with companies, government subsidies, taxes on income, taxes on specific items that affect competitiveness, banning of items, regulations on everything and anything….

The US is not libertarian, at all.

Even the first amendment is actually libertarian- freedom of speech is already limited because you can’t be slanderous, libellous or call people to action etc.


So if you’re going to criticise the libertarians, rather than imply they’re the cause of the current problems, point out that if they got their way there’d be much much bigger ones
gpt
I usually tell them that we gave their ideas a go and it created something called the Gilded Age.