Oh crap. I could rant on this. Oh my goodness how I could rant.

But let me just add this one little snip instead.

The largest flaw in Libertarian ideology in regards to the market, is the incorrect and fundamentally flawed assumption that market forces work in the same way as natural forces.

Market forces are by definition, however, unnatural.

“Let the market decide”.

How about instead: Government interjects itself as little as possible, but when situations arise whereas the market is fucking us and others over, we step in and correct it ourselves?

But as you pointed out Bill, libertarians are similar to religious zealots, and their God, The Market, should not be blasphemed by such things as insisting on a humane system of health care and health insurance.

Goodness knows, we wouldn’t want to muddy up the purity of a 19th century market philosophy for the sake of practical common sense.