An article about how Libertarians took over a town

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears

It is a good read.

 

[God Almighty]

Sean Illing
Then what happened over the next few years or so?

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
By pretty much any measure you can look at to gauge a town’s success, Grafton got worse. Recycling rates went down. Neighbor complaints went up. The town’s legal costs went up because they were constantly defending themselves from lawsuits from Free Towners. The number of sex offenders living in the town went up. The number of recorded crimes went up. The town had never had a murder in living memory, and it had its first two, a double homicide, over a roommate dispute.

Every time Ron Paul style lolbertarians have tried this sort of thing, it has failed spectacularly. They, by themselves, have proven it doesn't work. Nobody had to undermine them, nobody had to wage a cold war against them, no one tried to blow up their leaders with exploding cigars. It just plain doesn't work.

And it attracts bears.

 

[Payday23]

@DEAD7

 

[Payday23]

Every time Ron Paul style lolbertarians have tried this sort of thing, it has failed spectacularly. They, by themselves, have proven it doesn't work. Nobody had to undermine them, nobody had to wage a cold war against them, no one tried to blow up their leaders with exploding cigars. It just plain doesn't work.

And it attracts bears.

 

[mastermind]

Libertarian policy is what a stingy adolescent would do.

 

[88m3]

not even remotely surprised

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Every time Ron Paul style lolbertarians have tried this sort of thing, it has failed spectacularly. They, by themselves, have proven it doesn't work. Nobody had to undermine them, nobody had to wage a cold war against them, no one tried to blow up their leaders with exploding cigars. It just plain doesn't work.

And it attracts bears.

At the state level - Sam Brownback's Kansas

At the corporate level - Eddie Lampert's Sears

It literally fails at every level, every time.

 

[NZA]

few women and children and an influx of bears. libertarianism sounds like a self-correcting problem

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

few women and children and an influx of bears. libertarianism sounds like a self-correcting problem

Theres an opening for a series of insensitive jokes there

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Who was that on here that said libertarianism is something you grow out of when you stop being 19?

 

[DEAD7]

Anarchist

 

[Payday23]

Anarchist

Hold this L breh. You ain't pinning this on no anarchist

 

[God Almighty]

Anarchist

The bears? Yeah, probably. I doubt bears would afford the state a monopoly on violence.

 

[Cave Savage]

Hold this L breh. You ain't pinning this on no anarchist

Anarcho-Capitalism is the most extreme form of libertarianism, which is what these guys were trying to achieve

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

"oh you wanna abolish the state but not capital, huh breh."

Hold this L breh. You ain't pinning this on no anarchist