Voting advice from our libertarian friends

Unqualified Offerings writes

For any national office, vote for Democrats today. If you can’t bring yourself to vote Democratic, vote for anyone who isn’t a Republican...

A lot of us came to libertarianism because we learned from Hayek that schemes to mandate economic equality, pursued zealously enough, led to torture, arbitrary detention and state murder. All true. But it’s also possible to skip the mandating economic equality step and go straight for the torture, arbitrary detention and state murder. That’s the path we’re on now. I’m not saying we’ll get there, but that’s where rule by the Republican Party, as presently constituted, leads.

...The counterargument is that the Democrats will be gutless and no real threat to the security state the GOP has spent four years building. I think that’s probably true. However, there is still one principle worth upholding: throw the bums out. Voting is like being strapped into a high chair and offered a couple of bowls of mush. The one useful way to communicate is to fling whatever they made you eat yesterday against the wall. Go now and fling.