I think the thing that bothers me most about libertarians...
…is the fact that they’re always crying, “But that’s not fair!” I have to pay more taxes. I have to pay for that guy’s social services. I have to pay more health insurance—even though I’m not sick—because other people are sick! If I’m equally qualified for a job/scholarship/some other social reward as a “minority”, the law requires the person giving the reward to give the reward to the “minority”—and even though no one ever follows that law, and I’m probably going to get the reward anyhow, that’s just so unfair and wrong! Oh, poor pitiful me for being white and/or male and/or well-educated and/or in a privileged economic class!
But the first time one of the rest of us goes, “But that’s not fair,” when we are talking about women or people of color or people of a less privileged economic class, you better BELIEVE you are going to get called out on it.
The “free market”—which is essentially just an economic system in which the wealthy, powerful, and educated get to do whatever the fuck they want, and the rest, being lesser beings, don’t matter so who the fuck cares what they do—is the great equalizer! (Even though we know it’s not.) It will magically disappear all the inequities of our society! (Even though we know it won’t.) And whatever inequities it doesn’t get rid of, well, you can just suck it, because LIFE’S NOT FAIR, BITCH.
(Unless, of course, you are a person of privilege. In which case, life must always be extra fair to you.)
I have a few friends that are libertarians. Some are of the right and others of the left. The ones that bother me the most are the ones that like to consider themself elite because they have a “professional” job which therefore makes them better than anyone else. Normally these people also follow Ayn Rand and objectivism. To her only those of true virtue and elitism deserve to be loved. Now, my friends, to her, would not deserve to be loved because they are truly not elite and priviledged to her standards. So this makes me laugh. Many libertarians are all for one and no one else. It’s all about the I and no one else. But to the priviledged these friends of mine are still below them and do not deserve the same, well, priviledges the true blue blood rich deserve. Or those that are self-made millionaires that worked 70+ hours a week for 10 years. God forbid you actually want to enjoy your life and feel a little freedom while you’re a live. What is not fair is where you were born and to whom. It’s a gamble you don’t choose to play. And for some people, no matter how hard they work, will never be able to be considered priviledged under the eyes of those that are priviledged. And with the ongoing job recession it will take a lot for me to feel sorry for them when they lose their jobs and healthcare and such. And to feel any kind of empathy when they start crying, “Life’s not fair”. Because all I’ll want to say is, “Yep, life’s not fair bitch; now suck it up”. Because I know they will still think they are more elite than other unemployed, healthcare less fellow Americans.
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