5 Issues (Among Many) on Which Libertarians Are On Your Side
12th August 2014
J. D. Tuccille attempts to be persuasive.
Are libertarians just Ayn Rand-obsessed pot smokers who want to hide their money from the tax man?
Yeah, pretty much — at least the ones who write for tReason magazine. When our civilization is faced with an existential threat from a billion people whose totalitarian ideology was crafted in the 7th century by a mass-murdering brigand, worrying about whether smoking pot is legal is a perspective problem that makes such ‘libertarians’ irrelevant. If ‘libertarian’ means anything, it means a devotion to liberty, and worrying about what people can smoke here rather than spending full time about how basic liberty is being suppressed there (and here as soon as they can make it happen) is impossible to characterize as other than juvenile.