Why libertarians fail

Two posts on the problem. The first raises honest questions:

Why Does Liberty Lose?

There is a good discussion going in the comments.

But maybe the real problem is not the ideas or ideals but the people espousing them. Say for example, the bozo who kicked of this little discussion at CopBlock.org:

disagreeing with the guys at CopBlock.org

HT:View From The Porch (Read her comments too).

Sometimes it seems to me that what passes for libertarian activism is often little more than a snotty juvenile sense of entitlement.

This also probably explains part of the problem as well:

From the outset the eminence of this new creature, the intellectual, who was to play such a tremendous role in the history of the twentieth century, was inseparable from his necessary indignation. It was his indignation that elevated him to a plateau of moral superiority. Once up there, he was in a position to look down on the rest of humanity. And it did not cost him any effort, intellectual or otherwise. As Marshall McLuhan would put it years later: 'Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.'

Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up