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I'm a pragmatist and at a time considered myself a pragmatic libertarian.
The problem with libertarians is you can't defend liberty by permitting the enemies of liberty to do whatever they want. You aren't going to have liberty if you import 10million illiterate violent Mexicans every year. You aren't going to have liberty if you permit every nation to tariff your products with zero reciprocation. You aren't going to have liberty if all the young men in your society are dropping out because all the young women are infertile whores.
Liberty is like a good wife: beautiful, loving, desirable, and maybe a bit mischievous. But like a good wife, Liberty needs to be protected, supported, and given structure. Otherwise the good wife turns into the old whore, and the sweetness of freedom transforms into the madness of anarchy.
Or, as I would explain it to negros: Liberty is like your top hoe. But every pimp needs his bottom bitch, the hoe that keeps the other bitches in line. Your bottom bitch is Uncle Sam. If you didn't have Uncle Sam, Liberty is going to go buck wild and ruin the entire operation.