Glenn Greenwald ain't no Libertarian, Part 2: Wall Street

[joshcryer]

45. What Libertarian is against prosecuting thieves?

Public Financing would ban Citizens United because the public doesn't have unlimited coffers like the plutocrats do. There's no way the public could "match funds" of non-affilated super-PACs using Citizen's United ruling.

Libertarians believe that if the unfettered free markets were to have their way then corruption would be minimized or even eradicated because magically no one would do business with corrupt individuals (this is proven abjectly false). Indeed, letting the banks fail, prosecuting the bankers (and every person who signed a piece of paper on a dud loan), that's all in line with this ideology.

His working for an oligarch doesn't matter, the main thing is that he's pushing click-bait journalism that shuts down activism in place of outrage politics. But he never pretended to be an activist of any caliber.

Here's a Libertarian arguing for a public health insurance option. It's hardly damn inconsistent.

Libertarians believe that regulations are government protectionism because monopolists run the lobby and keep the playing field to their advantage. Small businesses, therefore, can't compete because to Libertarians regulations keep them out of competition.