Libertarians are generally naive people who seem to think that if we just turn back the clock to the Gilded Age and get rid of all those pesky things like the social safety net and regulations on big businesses and child labor laws, all will be hunky dory.
It is odd that Libertarians don't seem to realize that we've already tried (economic) libertarianism and it failed. We've tried having a country without a social safety net. We've tried having a country without civil rights laws. We've tried having a country without a federal income tax. We've tried having a country without public schools that are available to all citizens. Libertarians are as bad as Russians who want to return to Communism. It has been tried. It was wrong. It failed.
