But Independents and Democrats, being of sound mind, should stay away from those Libertarian anarchists who engaged in property destruction at the out-of-control Republican convention ...

You know, the one where they tear-gassed Gwen Ifill of the PBS Newshour and bashed in the head of other major media reporters ... showing that the Chinese police at the Olympics were far more restrained than Republicans are.

America's core values of Truth, Justice, and the American Middle Class way of life are being tested - and Republicans have only shown their incompetence, greed, and failure to lead.

and "markets" have played an integral role to the development of our nation. the market isn't just the stock market, but anything where there exists a supply and demand of something and there are incentives on both sides. information markets, financial markets, social markets; all markets.

and i agree that markets have played an integral role in the development of our nation and of the world for that matter. but so has regulation of said markets, which is the issue i generally have with the oversimplified worldview of most libertarians. this idea that if you leave these markets alone they'll regulate themselves is pure fantasy. and it doesn't match up with the professed libertarian position on the basic rights of people. after all don't we all have a right to not have our drinking water poisoned by industrial waste? the only method of enforcing such broader views of rights is to, in some measure, curtail the 'market'. there has to be an authority above the corporate and their has to be a value higher than the market.

Oh, and I was kind of a libertarian at the time. My libertarian phase was started mostly by Clinton signing the Communications Decency Act. I've since learned that most self-styled libertarians are mostly about not paying taxes and having the legal freedom to smoke crack.