The Patriot Post® · America's Selective Libertarianism

Jonah Goldberg: “I wish it were otherwise, but people tend to be libertarian only after it’s demonstrated to them that the government can’t deliver the results they want. … To the extent that libertarian ideas are gaining new currency outside the GOP, it’s because of government’s failures. Particularly for young people – especially more affluent young people – the yawning chasm between the efficiency of the private sector and the haplessness of the public sector is poisonous to faith in government. The VA scandal, the clownish rollout of the Obamacare website and the near wholesale inability of Barack Obama to deliver on his economic promises have done more to breathe new life into libertarianism than a thousand lectures about Friedrich Hayek’s ‘Road to Serfdom’ ever could.”