Conservatives have brains and can think. Libertarians walk around in a mental muddle murmuring “no taxes, no gov’t, no regulations” under their breath.
Conservatives are appropriately pessimistic to not really trust anyone with power, the poor, or the rich, unions or management. Libertarians have had their minds washed by reading Ayn Rand and Von Mises, so they live in happy happy libertarian la la land, where if only the mean ‘ol gov’t would go away then we would all live in the Garden of Eden.
Conservatives look upon Wall Street the same way they look at welfare bums, as people who will screw you over if they get the chance. Libertarians OTOH look on Wall Street as heroic incarnations of Dagny, and John, and Hank, and that viking pirate dude...
Libertarians do not spank their children because that is the “initiation of force” whereas conservatives do not spare the rod, lest their children grow up and become libertarians.
parsy, who hopes this explains it
Libertarians walk around in a pot induced mental muddle murmuring “no taxes, no gov’t, no regulations, legalize drugs” under their breath.
Parsy, who really needs to get a better education.....
*Sigh*
That was very disappointing, I thought you could do better.
Parsy, who got burned by Rand, but still he doesn’t understand.
For someone who criticizes other people's strawmen, yours are not too bad. You really need to get over to Mises.org to learn what libertarianism really is. The Wall St you are pointing to is mostly a mish mash of the Federal Reserve, big banks and bought and paid for politicians who all love deficit spending and loose credit. What Wall St is supposed to be is a place for long term investment with risk of failure. Instead it is all "risk free" carry trade thanks to the Fed and related speculation.