. . . that family and religion have always been defenses against state impositions, and that they should be an important part of any free society. They also understand that that is exactly why the government tyrants of the world have always attacked and marginalized family and religion. Karl Marx called religion “the opium of the masses” that must be abolished before capitalism can be destroyed and socialism realized. This was a main theme of a great talk given by Jeff Deist at the 2017 Mises University last week. One libertarian called it “the most important libertarian speech made in the past decade.”
The usual suspects — a few family- and religion-hating nihilistic libertines masquerading as “libertarians” (and associated with the Cato Institute) went berserk (as usual) with their heads seeming to explode over this idea and spouting all kinds of vile, psychotic hatred (Nazis! Racists!! Sexists!!!). Real libertarians are attaching labels to these characters like “ignorant” and “prejudiced” which seems much too mild to me. They are no different from the cultural Marxists in academe, or the hardcore leftists at the Southern Poverty Law Center in this regard.
Does the Cato Institute really believe that the best way to attract more Americans to libertarian ideas is to continue to attack their families and religious beliefs? If not, why does it maintain associations with such people?
8:06 am on August 3, 2017
