Libertarian atheists: part of the problem

[Tiberius]

One of the reasons Wal-Mart is as successful as it is is because they open stores in smaller, rural places where there are a: no competitors of any appreciable size which will long survive their presence and b: people who are mostly on the poor side and would have to travel a too far a distance to patronize a serious competitor such as Target or Kroger.

It seems to me though, that the amount of customers in these smaller, rural places would be low, given that they are small and rural. I'd be interested to see some stats on what percentage of Walmart customers come from rural areas vs those nearer the more urban areas.

And, if you have a scenario where you pay for the services of law enforcement, how do you make it so that the law being enforced isn't the law of the highest bidder? What would realistically stop Wal-Mart from using the law they own to crush competition?

I'm confused. Who is suggesting that law enforcement serves the highest bidder? Certainly nobody in this thread...

[Doubting Thomas]

Rick Santorum who would pobably love to institute a national ban on homosexuality.

What the hell do you mean, "probably?"

Santorum actually said that the government belongs in people's bedrooms and that no Americans have a right to privacy.

[Brian37]

http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-athei...-1-problem

Libertarian atheists are part of the 1% problem.

I'm forced to agree with the article, as long as the problem is greedy corporate raiders whose only concern is their own checkbook.

Still, I have to admit, some of the libertarians are still better than the hard-core conservatives. I mean, I feel more comfortable with a Ron Paul who wants to let the individual states decide what to do about laws on homosexuality vs a Rick Santorum who would pobably love to institute a national ban on homosexuality.

Libertarians to me are republicans on steroids economically speaking.

[TaraJo]

Unfortunately, as things are now, when people actually do object to the practices of the wealthy and they try to do something about it, they usually go down like this: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/ma...ne-minute/

[kılıç_mehmet]

I don't think anyone can be accused for desiring more wealth and being selfish in a country like America.
Why you complain about the 1% problem which isn't a problem, considering that Americans constitute a 1% or so on their own when the whole world is taken into consideration, and still whine without actually doing anything against the said problem is beyond me.
You expect the 1% to stop being a problem on their own, whereas you can't really expect a problem to solve itself, can you now?
I personally believe that the multitude of the people that cry about the 1% problem are insincere and inactive. They lack everything, from devotion to an actual, factual system of thought that is able to correctly analyze the problem itself, and not the symptoms.
In short, they are rabble, they are by all means, peasants that deserve to be ruled by the said 1%.