>>2554334If I'm truthful, I've come to sympathize with "real" ancaps and libertarians against trumpist retards. All 5 of them.
Anarcho capitalism is wrong and impossible, but so are most ideologies. Pretentiously, it has a useful dialectic with socialists and socdems who can, occasionally, get drawn into silly mistakes by being too clever by half.
Good economic planning and regulation can sometimes beat the market, but
bad economic planning and regulation will always underperform it, and even very clever people can do their planning badly. Sometimes, when a bad plan is going badly, the best solution is to take your hands off the wheel… But the weakness of an intellectual is that it's very hard to say "I don't know and I'm not going to touch anything, the wisdom of the crowd can sort it out" instead of trying to find a solution yourself. Ancaps have helpful things to say in arguing for a move towards this state of affairs.
(They do themselves no favors by picking half-hearted heroes. Thatcher, for example, was not the libertarian she's portrayed as. She created fake, highly-regulated markets for former state-owned industries to roleplay in and engaged in massive giveaways of state assets. She was, in the ancap slur sense of the term, a "socialist.")
They've a similar dialectic with the right, provided that they're strongly principled and not just looking for a tax cut: tariffs are retarded interference with the market, immigration restrictionism and ICE are retarded interference with the market, mandating that institutions discriminate against LGBT people and antizionists is retarded interference with the market.
For smart people who won't go left, it's much better that they wind up with this kind of obsession than going down the rabbit hole of skull measuring.
>>2555349tbh I find glib anarchist-chic idiots have the best politics of all because their politics are so empty. That's what a mentally healthy person does. Good things are good, bad things are bad, acab, simple as. That's a much better position to be in than where I find myself, making the communist case for market libertarianism as a lesser evil, an ugly position that pleases nobody. That's a much better position to be in than developing an
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