The Reagan scam - Reagan's support of free trade/opposition to protectionism ensured the devaluation and loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs. His demonization of taxes and government services ensured that those effected by losses in the manufacturing sector would oppose retraining to help ease the transition to a information-based economy. Thus, Reagan planted the seeds for con artist and fascist candidate Trump.

Libertarians are simply unknowing Rousseaueans.

Libertarians: Life in the state of nature is rich, pleasant, gentle, and long.

“A lot of people would like to stay on the sideline and say, ‘Just bomb the place and tell us about it later,’ ” said Representative Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia, who supports having an authorization vote. “It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.”1

Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth. —T.S. Eliot^{1 2}

Sounds a little bit like Mr. Kenneth Earl Wilber, does it not?