I should say that there’s plenty about which I agree with people who call themselves libertarians.  The Cato institute, which Moore is a part of, was a long-standing principled opponent of the Iraq war, unlike other self-described libertarians.  I don’t know what Moore’s personal view was on this matter.

If we had an economy where we could put our money under our mattresses and be reasonably certain that the money would still be worth something later on, that would encourage saving, it seems to me that this would make us all less vulnerable to the crazy stuff that happens on Wall Street. I agree with Lee that intellectually honest, consistent libertarians are still wrong — but they may deserve far more respect and consideration than these so-called libertarians who try to co-opt libertarianism to advance a hypocritical agenda.

These lovers of the market don’t trust the market to its own devices, in cases where corporations would be in a weak position without government help.  There are some honest, consistent libertarians out there — who are, I think still wrong in their beliefs — but what passes for modern libertarianism in America often seems like little more than pro-corporate (which by definition means pro Big Government) ideology with lots of talk of freedom but lots of action that ensures massive government involvement on behalf of the powerful at the expense of the less powerful.

How revolting.