Ron Paul and the Dictatorship of the Libertariat

By Adam Yoshida

I find dealing with many of Ron Paul's supporters deeply frustrating. Granted, I agree that government has grown too large, too intrusive, and expensive over the course of the last century. But it is consistently the case that the majority of Paul's supporters -- as well as Congressman Paul himself -- have no realistic plan to implement any of their high ideals. It is one thing to stand on a rooftop shouting about your principles, but when elections end, someone actually has to sit down and run the government. If, and this appears to be the case as far as I can tell, the only way that Ron Paul-style libertarianism could ever be implemented is through the establishment of some sort of dictatorship of the libertariat as a transitional stage between socialism and capitalism. Last week I wrote a column on the subject of Paul's campaign for the presidency. That column elicited a furious response, including a personal denunciation from Antiwar.com's Justin Raimondo. Raimondo, for his part, dredged up an.... (Read Full Article)