How did the movement get to this point?
The desperate terminal cancer patient will shell out to the snake-oil salesman who is sufficiently brazen to put up and maintain that convincing front of authoritative knowledge that his poisons will remove those metastases, all for the low low KMart price of...
So it is even with many men who claim to want freedom. Just as that cancer patient does not want to face the reality of their malady, the less-than libertarian (LTL) doesn't want to face the less appealing aspects of freedom's price structure. They are thereby ripe for the picking by the snake oiler who shows the brass to tell them authoritatively that they can be free without paying that little snippet of the price. We could call it "discounted freedom". The LTL allows himself to be fooled into believing he can have full-monty freedom at a discounted price. This is like buying that beautiful Pagani Huayra at 50% off, not realizing that that price one does not include an engine.
This is the perennial problem of the average man. He wants what he wants and will cling like a starving child to it dead mother's breast unto his own destruction for the sake of getting that which he wants. Because they are not possessed of themselves, but are rather owned by their desires, they become easy targets for the snake oilers.
I once had to laugh at the nonsense that I found the Unitarian Universalist "faith" to be. They are one of the acmes of pandering to mens' desire to have it all their way - freedom, big tits, and great squirting penises all for free. "We dare not fence the spirit". Well then alrighty, I think I'll go right over there and rape that little boy who's looking so invitingly cute.
People feverishly tend to seek comfort, whatever that may be for them - and the range is remarkably broad. They will sell their daughters into whorehouses for the sake of having that which they desire and ANYONE with the balls to stand up and tell them that they can have it will become as God to those timid, grasping men who are willing to debase and demean themselves to nearly any degree and in any manner conceivable in exchange for nothing more than the mere hint of a vaguely stated almost-promise of something they think they want.
That is at least partly why some faction of the liberty movement was able to be co-opted and transmuted into a bowel movement .
Freedom is great, but not unlike a Huayra, it is expensive as all hell, challenging to drive at times, and potentially very dangerous. However, unlike the Huayra whose nature cannot be disputed by any but perhaps the most willfully stupid, men will attribute all manner of confabulated nonsense to freedom in their relentless pursuit to rationalize their beliefs that one can be free at no cost.
Anything for the sake of getting something for nothing.
As we can see, it's not just the degenerates in the ghettoes with this problem. Many of them live in McMansions on Skyline Drive.
