Quote Originally Posted by eugmac View Post
what frightens me most about you libertarian types is that you only seem to see things in black and white.
That we're black and white is the perception. I'm not sure what perpetuates it. The last way I would describe libertarianism is black and white, but one of the first ways I would describe what people think of libertarianism is that it's black and white.

Maybe the first step to understanding libertarianism (market capitalism) is that it's economics. It's not a branch of economics, but itself economics. Even the most "left-wing" economists, like Paul Krugman, are about a thousand times more "free market capitalist" than the public perceives them as. What makes a small handful of economists "left-wing" comes out of how popular it is with the public to be so, not things that academic economists believe. Additionally, most enthusiasts who claim to be economists, don't exactly have the credibility. I was blown away when I started reading the opinions of those with econ PhDs who still currently teach. What they say is night and day difference with what the public thinks.