The thing to notice in the New York Times article is the six degrees of separation by which libertarianism can be slandered and belittled, and dismissed, because one person knows one person, who knew one person, who could be considered racist. Classic - Ron Paul once gave Murray Rothbard a ride from an airport (...) and Rothbard at one point expressed support for David Duke, who David Duke at one point, although not longer at the point when Rothbard endorsed him, was a clan member. This, of course, means that all libertarian theory is wrong, everything that Murray Rothbard ever wrote (...) is wrong. There's nothing in there worth seeing, because he at one point for explicit political, tactical reasons expressed support for David Duke, who was formerly in the clan. Hence libertarianism is wrong.

This is why I bring out the fact, that the clan, racism and slavery, Jim Crow and the Solid South are all bastions of the Democratic Party. And we have members of the Democratic Party, who up until very recently, powerful, respected members, who were literally in the clan. The biggest example (...) is Robert C. Byrd. Robert C. Byrd was in the clan for decades. He was a Grand Cyclops. He wore the sheets. He expressed his support, voted against every black Chief Justice he could. And he gets a eulogy in The New York Times.

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If Ron Paul is wrong, because Rothbard at one point supported the guy, who formerly was in the clan, then The New York Times is a fuckin' clan publication, because it's given an eulogy to a clan member.

lengthyounarther "Liberal Hypocrite, I Rebuke thee"

To give you an example of YAF spirit those days (...) There was a small libertarian contingent. This was beginning the libertarian-conservative alliance. (...) They suggested the term "Young Americans for Freedom". The trads, who were in majority, traditionalists, said - no, no, we can't use the word "freedom", because it's a commie word. To me it sort of summarizes the right wing from now on. "Freedom is a commie word."

Murray Rothbard

[Keynes] told Hayek at the end of his life that if business cycles went to far with inflation and public dept, he can always change things around, he can just snap his finger and everything would shift. Unfortunately, Keynes died and left us with his long run.

Murray Rothbard "Keynes the Man: Hero or Villain?"

This then is a face F. A. Hayek will present to the world in his "Constitution of Liberty". It is a face such that if I were a young man first getting interested in political questions and I should read this as the very best product of the extreme right, I would become a roaring leftist in no time, and so I believe would almost anyone.

Murray Rothbard