The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

Milton Friedman  (via libertyidaho)

Discrimination is inefficient; if it persists, government intervention is likely the problem.

At first I thought this was a joke, but then I realized that I’m naive and expect people to have a sense of irony. Like, to realize that posting something about how impartial, informed, and open-minded (that’s a good one) one is while villainizing and blatantly misrepresenting (um, I know a lot of libertarian women who call themselves ‘conservative’ (I don’t, but many do) that are much more attractive than the girl in the ‘liberal’ column and are not criminals that resemble birds).

So let’s go through the bullets, shall we?

Hm, the greater mean education of conservatives tends to disagree with this. Sorry.

Graduate degrees are relatively unimportant and are a very poor financial decision in most cases, unless one is pursuing them for managerial edge or wants to become an academic, which is a highly overrated profession which is extremely politicized, to the chagrin of many well-meaning, intelligent PhDs. Anyway, real skills shouldn’t be discounted. ‘Liberals’ claim to advocate for blue collar workers, right?

I know very few ‘liberals’ that are more informed than I am. Admittedly, the slightly more informed conservatives often have obnoxious sentiments that accompany their facts, but nonetheless, they have a better idea of how many wars we’re in, at the very least. Oh, and I was severely bullied exclusively by liberals, growing up. They refused to revisit their reasons for their beliefs, because they were an overwhelming majority and simply made fun of me. Super tolerant, right? And the Democrats with whom I try to discuss Obama’s extremely poor record with humanitarian issues? They aren’t delusional at all.

Many ‘liberals’ insist that the poor should be put on a fiscal IV for the rest of their lives, with little expectation that their poverty is a minor hiccup that the individuals are intelligent and entrepreneurial enough to solve themselves. That seems pretty disrespectful of others’ dignity to me.

If ‘liberals’ didn’t gather information from biased sources, Rachel Maddow and her ugly haircut wouldn’t have a job. Granted, she might not be as morally repugnant as Ann Coulter, but that’s not saying much.

If I had a penny for every time I heard a ‘liberal’ revert to the morally reprehensible accusation that those that disagree with them ‘want to kill the poor’, ‘hate the poor’, etc., I’d be a fat guy in a baseball cap making documentaries about how much I hate the system from which I’m making loads of money off of.

Before someone reblogs this saying how I’m just angry because I’m conservative: I’m not. I’m a libertarian and I consider myself very liberal and much more concerned with human rights violations, such as war, than most ‘leftists’.

I’m so tired of this obnoxiously one-sided villainizing in which both the right and the left engage. We need to treat others like human beings. Maybe our socialized education system didn’t succeed with the key psychological development goals for kindergarten, but people are capable of being civil to each other, treating others with respect, and above all, realizing that others have different thoughts and experiences which compose their unique mental concepts and perspective on the world. And that is okay. That is great. Judging others and typifying them won’t help anyone; it just contributes to the degradation of civility and justifies treating others as subhuman, which is despicable.