Talk:Vulgar libertarianism
Last edit didn't make much sense and the poster seemed to miss the point. Vulgar libertarians are those who tend to engage in free market rhetoric to promote their funders' interests or to defend corporate malfeasance for whatever reason. Steve Milloy is a vulgar libertarian as he's a paid for oil/tobacco shill using libertarian rhetoric. Megan McArdle is a regular libertarian who just happens to be clueless and stumbles into arguments defending the indefensible. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 15:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- You seem to be operating under the premise, not accepted by libertarians, that there is some sort of conflict between free market rhetoric and the funders' interests. As long as the Fake Libertarians are not actually opposing the other parts of a free market, as contrasted with merely ignoring them, it is not very sound to condemn them for hypocrites.
ListenerXTalkerX 03:44, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Sophisticated theology
I think the connection with Sophisticated theology is that theology and vulgar libertarianism twist logic to suit the proposes of those who support the system in question. Proxima Centauri (talk) 09:06, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
- I have come to the conclusion that Proxima Centauri is possessed by a demon, which compels her type up only the very dumbest ideas that cross her mind.
Radioactive Misanthrope 09:09, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Big Business
The liberty of adding some counterexamples on the specificity of the benefits of certain vulgar-libertarian goals has been taken. Also, while this does characterize the Beltway end of vulgar libertarianism adequately, Carson also describes the vulgarity of vulgar libertarianism (EDIT - add in "as the tendency" which somehow missed making it into the message I typed Frostbyte (talk) 07:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)) to defend any profitable status quo as suitably libertarian (or, put another way, to confuse a pro-business position for a pro-market one). The article would benefit from including this. Frostbyte (talk) 23:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- the vulgarity of vulgar libertarianism to defend any profitable status quo as suitably libertarian
- That's a good point, and how I generally understood vulgar libertarianism to function in the first place.
Radioactive Misanthrope 00:08, 25 February 2014 (UTC)