Quote from: Puppet on September 28, 2013, 11:14:56 AM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on September 28, 2013, 09:14:53 AM

Let me remind everyone about MF Global, Too Big To Fail, Central Banking (from the Fed to the BIS), TARP, NAFTA, Government Motors, and the rest of the Great Bailout.

I said diehard libertarians.You dont have to be a diehard libertarian to oppose that. In fact, you will find many people from the opposite extreme of the political spectrum opposing most of the things you mention at least as vehemently. Ask dennis kucinich what he thinks of Nafta, Too big too fail, IMF, the Fed, TARP. Are we counting kucinich among die hard libertarians now? Obivously not. So the issues you raise arent libertarian issues, most of them are just about common sense.

It's easy here in the present, with the benefit of hindsight, for genuine progressives like DK to see the evils their dreams of regulating the market to perfection inadvertently caused.

But at the time the hyper-regulatory state was being constructed, only the libertarians warned of the dangers of deep capture and told the progressives their path paved with good intentions would lead us nowhere desirable.