As a recovering ex-Libertarian, I understand all-too-well the allure of logical, perfectly-reasoned ideas - that also don't happen to work. This is not an indictment of all ideas Libertarian but of one of its core tenets, "Government is the problem - not the solution." Sound familiar?
The world we live in is far too complex for us to trust one-big-idea-fits-all ideologues - either from the Right, the Left or all persuasions in-between. Here's a great article from Jacob Weisberg of Slate on that topic. And a commentary by Fareed Zakaria on the new approach we must take.
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