• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    No one is a libertarian because the social base for libertarianism comprises of people in untenable economic situations. They’re all guys in the dead center of the middle class who all think they’d be billionaires if not for taxes. They have no other concerns, they just want to be rich out of boredom because they have no other concerns. Sometimes they have to fill out too much paperwork to buy an assault rifle or they pay a little too much property tax and they interpret this as persecution, because they can’t have more toys. It’s the ideology of comfortable white guys, but not so comfortable they’re living as lavish ghouls in mansions. The actual bourgeoisie aren’t libertarians because they know it’s a dead end ideology. If libertarians ever reach that amount of wealth they morph into standard neoliberals, or obtain god complexes. Or if they slip out of their comfortable amount of wealth and become more working class, it’s a 50/50 chance they become a socialist or a reactionary depending on geography and peer group.