The Truth About Libertarianism

Paul Krugman concisely sums up the biggest problem with Libertarianism and why the federal government has to play a larger role than most subscribers to Rand Paul's faith care to see. His little paragraph says more than I could write in an entire book.

I’m sure that in his own mind Rand Paul sees himself as a principled libertarian, applying the same standard of personal responsibility to everyone. In practice, however, it’s only the poor and powerless who get held to that standard; when it’s a big coal or oil company — and we already know that both Massey and BP were severely negligent — well, “sometimes accidents happen.”

Funny how that works.

Paul knows nothing about being poor and powerless.  But that doesn't make him unsympathetic.  It does, however, make him unaware that poor and powerless is the same thing as discrimination.