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Thank you for responding and for the book recommendations.
Great focus of libertarianism - "The utopian libertarian vision is very pretty, but it ignores political and economic reality. I started having serious doubts about it in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The clincher for me was the 2008 crash, which demonstrated that libertarianism was "just a theory" (to channel, ironically, a standard antievolution trope) that had no basis in historical reality. It just gives the extremely wealthy (the Kochs, for example) a figleaf to justify their predatory practices, legal and otherwise"
Dear Mr. Johnson,
Thank you for taking time to read and review works about constitutional intent. It means a lot. I wish more people took the time to examine all points of view to further our understanding of such a misunderstood topic.
God bless,
Robert Burgett
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Great focus of libertarianism - "The utopian libertarian vision is very pretty, but it ignores political and economic reality. I started having serious doubts about it in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The clincher for me was the 2008 crash, which demonstrated that libertarianism was "just a theory" (to channel, ironically, a standard antievolution trope) that had no basis in historical reality. It just gives the extremely wealthy (the Kochs, for example) a figleaf to justify their predatory practices, legal and otherwise"
Dear Mr. Johnson,Thank you for taking time to read and review works about constitutional intent. It means a lot. I wish more people took the time to examine all points of view to further our understanding of such a misunderstood topic.
God bless,
Robert Burgett
