Why Rand Paul Is Over: Libertarianism's Heart Of Darkness

The central attraction of Libertarianism is the purity of its principles.

But they are too pure.

Too true to be good.

And fundamentally unworkable.

At the heart of libertarianism is an essential selfishness 

that aspires to calm one's own demons at the expense of everything else.

GOP ideologues are first cousins.

"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"

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GERSON: Why is Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) so unpredictable? "When Chris Christie commits a gaffe on vaccination and reverses himself, it indicates a man out of his depth. With Paul, it reveals the unexplored depths of a highly ideological and conspiratorial worldview. ... His domestic libertarianism provides no philosophical foundation for most of the federal government. As a practical matter, he can call for the end of Obamacare but not for the abolition of Medicare or Medicaid or the National Institutes of Health. Yet these concessions to reality are fundamentally arbitrary. The only principle guiding Paul's selectivity is the avoidance of gaffes. Of which he is not always the best judge." The Washington Post.

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

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