Libertarian Socialism

[TaraJo]

Then who would you suggest establish the rules and regulations we need to have a functioning society?

You, me, everybody.
What really matters is the quality of our society. That comes from us, not from rulers. Not to say there shouldn't be rules, but they really are up to us to enforce. You can't depend on an imaginary authority figure to make anything happen. You can only count on your community.

I believe you mean one of two things

1) You prefer the people to govern directly instead of electing representatives to govern for them

or

2) The government is so out of control that the people no longer control it

Option 1 has a lot of serious problems, but I still get the feeling that you're leaning towards option 2. Thing there is, while I acknowledge that the government is out of control, libertarian proposals exactly had any solutions to it that would lead to more freedom for your average person. The "solutions" proposed would dial us back to the dawn of the industrial revolution, with most American workers in sweatshops with few rights and little money while the property owning elites lord over us the way mideval land owners lorded over their serfs. And, yes, I'm aware that if everyone decided not to work with the elites and didn't give them business or refused to work for them, this wouldn't happen, but that's just what we want to happen, not what would happen. As it is, I would be thrilled if people stopped going to church every Sunday to kiss the butt of an invisible friend in the sky, but since I know it isn't going to happen, I take religion into consideration when I deal with others. Likewise, while I would want us to abandon power hungry monsters of corporations, since I know we wouldn't, I don't want to give them free reign to rule over us like corporate dictators.