It's not even good satire.

Every political ideology can be twisted to carry water for authoritarianism, unfortunately.

I consider myself a libertarian, in that I consider individual liberty to be the chief metric by which our social systems should be judged.

But yes, I agree people claiming to be libertarians should have been speaking out against the fascists the loudest, while most were doing the exact opposite. All too many were happy being (not-so-) crypto-fascists, where the lofty ideals of individual freedom were merely trotted out as unobtainable goals to be denied when some ridiculous logical precondition could not be met. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires applied to fundamental human rights.

This did untold damage to the cause of individual liberty. "Free speech absolutist" is now nothing more than the butt of a joke, rather than a guiding principle of the Internet revolution.

Don't get me wrong here - last night was heartening. Voters soundly rejected fascism, red in tooth and claw, in the only way available in our two party system. I was right there along with you!

I just hope to hell democratic leadership can do something. Grump (or hopefully Vance) is going to be vetoing any positive action, and the public will eventually tire of two years of investigations and grandstanding. And the last thing we need is sandbagged legislation that has been neutered to be palatable to corpo sponsors.

We've got a wave of governors, momentum, and a mandate. Perhaps let's start pushing for some Constitutional amendments. Right of Recall (for all three branches), Ranked Pairs voting, Enshrining independent agencies in law (with their heads elected like the President is), a repudiation of Citizens United.

The obvious day-to-day is opposing the Grump regime, stopping the hemorrhaging of our institutions, repairing our relationships with our allies, and so on. But those amendments are what I see as the type of fundamental meta reforms we should all be able to agree upon, to address the deep-set issues that have caused so many of our fellow citizens to be lured by the siren song of spiteful hate in the first place. What do you think, friend?

Libertarianism is a synthetic political ideology created to lower the taxes of, reduce regulations for, and increase profits of billionaires at the expense of the climate and ordinary people's lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_and_libertarianism

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/cato-institute/#hi...