Comment Re:Libertarian nirvana (Score 1) 534
OK fine, but why mislabel it? In the Progressive movement, the state acts as a counter-balance to firms.
You're not getting it: I'm not mislabeling it. This is what Hitler promised (direct quote) in order to get elected:
we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance
Here is what Hitler said about America:
I don't see much future for the Americans
... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities
That could come straight from Hillary or Obama or any other modern progressive. I doubt anybody who voted for him wanted to murder millions of Jews or fight a hopeless war; that happens later, when these people are at risk of losing power because they inevitably utterly fail to deliver what they promise and instead end up just wrecking the economy.
Letting the firms do anything because somebody told you they would ride in on rainbow-colored unicorns if you did that?
Libertarians don't want to "let firms do anything"; there is a minimum level of regulation that is necessary, but we are far beyond that. Furthermore, regulation often protects firms from liability and competition, and that is exactly why companies get away with murder today. We need to get tough on companies, and that means generally: no subsidies, no exemption from liability due to regulation, and no artificial monopolies, exactly the opposite of what progressives actually do.
Even worse, we are at a stage now where Democrats propose bad regulations in order to fix problems that were caused by bad regulations in the first place. When that sort of thing goes unchecked for too long, it spirals out of control until the economy collapses entirely, and usually democracy with it.