What is wrong with these Libertarians?

They are the oddest of fellows - these libertarians, and the anarchists, the minarchists. Has something gone wrong with their mental biochemistry, that makes them embrace such odd perspectives? Aren't these the sort of radical whackadoodles that Mother warned about?

One can easily forget, now that the public is offered uninterrupted strains of normative and abnormal behavior, all but with subtitles on how to behave - that how people think is exactly that and no more - how people think. We seem to allow whoever wishes to assert authority, the prerogative of confrontation - to demand a person demonstrate that their beliefs are conformist, benign, permissible.  Queer beliefs, literally and figuratively, are permitted. but one must accept one's queerness - the ultimate arrogance shown in the Stonewall Riots, when Americans stood up and said - I am who I am, what of it to you?

I swipe several quotes from an essay Personal Choices Under Corporate-State Rule, written by a nutcase who renounced his US citizenship out of free will and sound mind - if that, by definition, is not a paradox:

• The State can only survive as long as a majority [of the citizenry] is mentally programmed to believe that theft is not wrong if it is called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping is not wrong if it is called arrest, that mass murder is not wrong if it is called war. ~ Bill St. Clair
• It is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting honest man cannot and must not take part, and the advantages of which he cannot and should not enjoy. ~ Leo Tolstoy
• He or she who supports a State organized in a military way – whether directly or indirectly – participates in sin. Each man takes part in the sin by contributing to the maintenance of the State by paying taxes. ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

What is wrong with these people?

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More Fountains of Gibberish from the Journal

Lord, Lord, that human blowsack Karl Rove weighs in at the Wall Street Journal

Americans are now seeing the damage that polls and focus groups can inflict on White House decision-making. President Barack Obama is no longer shaping the public dialogue on health-care reform. Instead, he is losing control of his agenda and resorting to rhetorical tricks and evasions.

What in hell's that supposed to mean? Obama is turning healthcare reform into nonsense by listening to Americans, and Americans should do something about it? In the first paragraph, his own argument bit itself in the ass, and died.

Tax-and-spend liberalism doesn’t work, no matter how pretty its package.

When it's wrapped up like the Bush Administration, even the dog won't play with it, either.

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The WSJ also offers the following gloomy graph, shown at the right. It describes the future gap from 2014 until 2029, as though it were are real as "borrowing from our children and grandchildren!"
Don't worry, folks. We'll be mighty well into the Euthanasia Bandwagon by the time 2020 comes around, if that's the picture of "healthcare" after the next few years.
We seem to have a bit of the "second train" paradox. You're tied to the railroad tracks, it's 9:55, and a train comes every hour, on the hour. You absolutely don't need to be concerned about the 11:00 train, nor the noontime express; by then, there is nothing worse that can happen to you.
Assumpsit global warming. By then, what are the chances that our economy, now in ballistic free-fall, will even be able to sustain carbon emissions? Don't worry about it.

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Arthur Laffer writes some interesting commentary:

The health-care wedge is an economic term that reflects the difference between what health-care costs the specific provider and what the patient actually pays. When health care is subsidized, no one should be surprised that people demand more of it and that the costs to produce it increase. Mr. Obama’s health-care plan does nothing to address the gap between the price paid and the price received. Instead, it’s like a negative tax: Costs rise and people demand more than they need....
Thus, health-care reform should be based on policies that diminish the health-care wedge rather than increase it. Mr. Obama’s reform principles—a public health-insurance option, mandated minimum coverage, mandated coverage of pre-existing conditions, and required purchase of health insurance—only increase the size of the wedge and thus health-care costs.

What he has to say is regrettably true. Healthcare will follow the path that college loans have taken over the last twenty years - driving college "costs" through the roof.

Rupert's Rag seems to dwell on everything BUT the coming crisis. Most folks - except Laffer - are worrying about the Second Train.

By this fall, nobody will care - the first train's a comin'