An impressive contemplation of Libertarianism's rather lint-filled navel.

Elections are won with money, and money is given in return for favors of special privilege - the exact opposite of libertarian policy prescriptions. It’s not a contradiction that a country with so many people who define themselves as “socially liberal and fiscally conservative” has no libertarians in major political offices. That isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate the efforts of libertarians to enact political change. I just hope they realize the magnitude of the odds stacked against us in the political arena....

The belief that liberty has to be respected for it’s own sake (libertarian morality) for people to prefer it. Liberty merely has to be in people’s self-interests. Not everyone finds the moral argument against taxation convincing, but make it easy and profitable to evade taxes, and nearly everyone will take advantage of it.

I'm not so sure about that second one. Yikes.

Anyway, ATSRTWT