Jon Stewart's 19 Tough Questions for Libertarians!

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, responds to 19 tough questions for libertarians. Get more from Stefan Molyneux including books, podcasts and other info at: http://www.freedomainradio.com

What would be your best response to these questions and statements:

0:06 - Is government the antithesis of liberty?

0:47 - One of the things that enhances freedoms are roads. Infrastructure enhances freedom. A social safety net enhances freedom.

2:02 - What should we do with the losers that are picked by the free market?

3:38 - Do we live in a society or don't we? Are we a collective? Everybody's success is predicated on the hard work of all of us; nobody gets there on their own. Why should it be that the people who lose are hung out to dry? For a group that doesn't believe in evolution, it's awfully Darwinian.

5:41 - In a representative democracy, we are the government. We have work to do, and we have a business to run, and we have children to raise.. We elect you as our representatives to look after our interests within a democratic system.

7:41 - Is government inherently evil?

9:03 - Sometimes to protect the greater liberty you have to do things like form an army, or gather a group together to build a wall or levy.

9:47 - As soon as you've built an army, you've now said government isn't always inherently evil because we need it to help us sometimes, so now.. it's that old joke: Would you sleep with me for a million dollars? How about a dollar? Who do you think I am? We already decided who you are, now we're just negotiating.

10:54 - You say: government which governs least governments best. But that were the Articles of Confederation. We tried that for 8 years, it didn't work, and went to the Constitution.

11:16 - You give money to the IRS because you think they're gonna hire a bunch of people, that if your house catches on fire, will come there with water.

11:56 - Why is it that libertarians trust a corporation, in certain matters, more than they trust representatives that are accountable to voters? The idea that I would give up my liberty to an insurance company, as opposed to my representative, seems insane.

13:38 - Why is it that with competition, we have such difficulty with our health care system? ...and there are choices within the educational system.

15:00 - Would you go back to 1890?

16:20 - If we didn't have government, we'd all be in hovercrafts, and nobody would have cancer, and broccoli would be ice-cream?

16:30 - Unregulated markets have been tried. The 80's and the 90's were the robber baron age. These regulations didn't come out of an interest in restricting liberty. What they did is came out of an interest in helping those that had been victimized by a system that they couldn't fight back against.

19:04 - Why do you think workers that worked in the mines unionized?

20:13 - Without the government there are no labor unions, because they would be smashed by Pinkerton agencies or people hired, or even sometimes the government.

20:24 - Would the free market have desegregated restaurants in the South, or would the free market have done away with miscegenation, if it had been allowed to? Would Marten Luther King have been less effective than the free market? Those laws sprung up out of a majority sense of, in that time, that blacks should not... The free market there would not have supported integrated lunch counters.

23:23 - Government is necessary but must be held accountable for its decisions.

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[bobokittyFukk]

I wont bother debating about women and their natural roles....pre 1970 women still could work and had the possibility to stay home and be a mother. Today they do not have this possibility thanks to the massive housing prices.

If women like this, then whatever, its not my fight. But dropping your 2 year old kid off at the kindergarten is an extreme for me, though I will probably not have the possibility to choose when the time comes.

Fun fact: alcoholism amongst women have risen dramatically.

[bobokittyFukk]

Heres a perfect example..China already disproved it, though you wont see any of that in the Cultural Marxist western media\schools.

We coming from Africa is a THEORY, though useful idiots as you always put it forth as fact.

China`s theory is multiorigin...something a little more balanced and not so fitting for the International Socialists Cultural Marxism agenda.

[TheColossalBlanket]

You seriously don't think we all came from Africa? Wow, your level of loonspuddery just moved to new heights. Of course biology plays a part, no one denies that but the idea of women being naturally nurturing home makers etc is all a bunch of shit. That is socially constructed. Read up on history and you'll see that.

[TheColossalBlanket]

This has nothing to do with Marxism, it's to do with social observation. Gender roles etc are not a fixed thing, they have changed throughout history. No one's trying to strip them, it's about challenging them. No, Marxists do not think all people are all the same. People you call Marxists want an entirely new society, literally new everything including no state. Again, you demonstrate your total ignorance. You don't know the nature of man, nobody does.

[bobokittyFukk]

When completed Karl Marx will appear, click his heels 3 times and Communism will be welcomed.

Its done by government funded institutions, media, schools, politics and "science".

Heres a perfect example:

theatlantic com/sexes/archive/2012/12/you-­can-give-a-boy-a-doll-but-you-­cant-make-him-play-with-it/265­977/

Not to mention the; we all came from Africa about 200k years ago, white people are just albino degenerates of the black man lol.

[bobokittyFukk]

Cultural Marxism=Manipulation for the deconstruction of all roles and cultural identities...especially the Man role. But also religious identities, gender identities, race identities etc.

They use the minority to change the majority.

Its sneaky and done by manipulation. All people are equal=the same. Its a theory that is made to free the people of their "shackles" of oppressive roles put upon the people with no regards of the nature of man.