When I was sixteen or so, right around when I first started to look into the black-pill, I still recall the first time I came across a real political YouTuber. His name was MentisWave, and he was a hard-core right-leaning libertarian. I watched his videos, and I think that was the first time I actually realized that I really didn't know anything about politics.
In general, it was the first time I realized that I was actually retarded. I feel like half of what he said made absolutely no sense to me, just because I didn't understand how deep politics really goes. I felt like the dude was way smarter than I—so I listened to a lot of what he said and thought it was correct.
Even still, I never could come around to finding Libertarianism as a whole to be something I agreed with—and it's not like it was from a lack of trying! I just couldn't find myself agreeing that allowing people at large to do whatever they want, would be in any way, shape, or form, a good idea. I had lived in California during this time, and I was being constantly pestered by the homeless drug addicts that surrounded my place, and often found myself fearing that one of these guys would come up and stab me.
In a libertarian society, these people would be free to do as they please and indulge themselves as much as they want. That alone broke my belief in hardcore Libertarianism. The idea of Libertarianism is fine in theory, but it just doesn't hold up for one core reason, at least as far as I'm concerned.
People making their own decisions is a bad idea, because, at large—people are retarded.
I don't think Libertarianism is completely devoid of anything good. I do find myself agreeing with some tenants of Libertarian thought, particularly in economics as it relates to capitalism. Like I think competition is a good thing and pushes business to be better and innovate. But the problem is that Libertarians take this idea too far and apply it to social aspects.
No, hiring jeets from India just because you don't want to pay someone native to this country is not a good idea, nor does it fuel any sort of healthy competition. And competition isn't good in all aspects. Such as the making of education a hypercompetitive hell where millions of foreign workers come in and work to become doctors, completely oversaturating the job market, leading to people who are actually passionate about the job to be discouraged from pursuing it—all so their parents can brag to other immigrant families.
I digress. Really, I'm still trying to formulate my thoughts on my exact stance in politics, and like I said, I'm not too bright, so maybe it's all for no real reason and nothing I say should be taken seriously.
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