This mob who have misappropriated the label 'libertarian' are the same chinless wonders of the Federation of Confederation Students in the 1980's - only now they've grown balder, fatter and more be-mortgaged. Back then they wanted to legalise heroin and hang Nelson Mandela as a terrorist - now they say the world capitalist crisis is the result of a feckless and greedy working class grown flabby on the welfare state. They thrive on the shock value of supposedly saying the unsay able - so for once I'm inclined to agree that ignoring them is the best way of attacking them.
But - their cer-wazy ideas do actually have a little more traction amongst a constituency within the middle classes with a smug consensus that 'something needs to be done about debt' and that cuts are necessary. Until of course their children's drama group is closed down or their parks and libraries shut and sold off. Most of all these people believe that society has become infected with the poison of debt and greed.
However, this supposed infection only applies to the materialistic white-van-man who has a mortgage for his home on a new-build estate, or maybe a loan for a car or a holiday. And of course those unemployed and unwashed who are actually dependent upon state benefits are even worse and have completely lost their moral compass. It's obviously a completely different matter if you have to borrow money to buy up and renovate a period home in a decaying urban area that is on the up. Or if you take out a loan to finance a sabbatical year whilst you give up work so that you can start that little bijou-business that you wanted all along before you ever got on the corporate ladder ... Cunts.
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