Fair or not, Bill Maher makes funny fun of libertarians. Casting satire aside, is Maher on to something?
Maher says “the conservatives whose obsessions with Ayn Rand have “ruined” the political philosophy for him.”
According to Huffingtonpost.com:
Once a supporter of Libertarianism and its views on government intervention, Maher explained why he thinks politicians such as Paul Ryan and Rand Paul are “intellectually stuck in their teen years” and have turned a once promising movement into a free market-obsessed, “nanny state”-fearing delusion.
Maher went on to defend his new views on Libertarianism by mocking the party’s tendency to reject government services even when they are arguably very useful:
“To everyone who keeps trying to shame me about abandoning my Libertarian moorings, my message is this: I didn’t go nuts, this movement did. Like when you see a stop light, your reaction should be ‘Great, an easy way to ensure we don’t all crash into each other,’ not, ‘How dare the government tell me when I can and cannot go!”
Maher strongly implies that libertarianism is akin to being in an arrested stage of development
