What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian

How does it actually feel to be someone who holds the principles described in Murray’s book?

I’ll tell you. It feels bad. Being a libertarian means living with a level of frustration that is nearly beyond human endurance. It means being subject to unending scorn and derision despite being inevitably proven correct by events. How does it feel to be a libertarian? Imagine what the internal life of Cassandra must have been and you will have a pretty good idea.

Imagine spending two decades warning that government policy is leading to a major economic collapse, and then, when the collapse comes, watching the world conclude that markets do not work.

The world is still not listening. They are pursuing destruction. Warnings are being ignored by Obama and Congress. They know their schemes won't help the economy but, to do otherwise, would expose their entire careers as exercises in hocus pocus politics to deceive voters in order to keep their jobs in perpetuity.