Slagging off the entire Libertarian blogosphere

Following on from my recent piece about arrogant left wingers who don't know how to debate properly...

I must, er, how do you call it?...'hat tip' a blogger called 'An Englishman's Castle' for bringing this piece from a vehemently anti-Libertarian blogger to our attention.

I've never heard of 'Taw's Blog' before. I won't be rude and presumptuous by suggesting reasons as to why I haven't heard of him before. Maybe he's new, or special interest, I don't know. But he sure seems to have us Libertarian bloggers down to a tee. Or at least so he thinks.

He has done, effectively, a total hatchet job on all the top 20 Libertarian bloggers, as voted as such in Iain Dale's Total Politics competition.

He reckons he has taken a sizable sample of articles from all the top guys, including DK, Obo, Leg Iron, Last Ditch, CF, [edit to add: Dick Puddlecote (to avoid offence ;-)] and of course us, and that we are all loons.

Having ripped ten tons of shit out of us, he concludes thus:

"...the posts I've seen were just so bad that of 100 I've checked I cannot point a single one that had any new insights or was interesting in any way. Few even pass basic sanity tests - not just by being contrarian - contrarian posts are much more interesting to read than ones that repeat the conventional wisdom - but by simply not having any idea what they write about."

So, because he did not like what he read, it is decided: all Libertarian bloggers are boring, mad and stupid.

That's it. Debate over.

And apparently we only write about a narrow range of subjects, which are largely fringe loon issues and such the like. And Ayn Rand is perfectly summed up as a 'shitty book writer'.

I now refer you to the next article down on this blog, which flows pretty much nicely from this one.

I guess my next piece had better be about the Grassy Knoll, followed by a little ditty about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, maybe nicely topped off with a few lines about how the Masons are running everything and that anyone with an income of less than £1,000,000 per year should be shot for being shit and poor.

Bye.

Edit to add: the Taws Blog blogger attacks Libertarianism in much the same way as various liberal leftists are doing. This is an increasing phenomenon and will continue as such, so long as we grow and challenge their dominance in public discourse. I will therefore write a piece about all this soon, covering it in more detail and discussing what Libertarianism actually is, who we are and why the misconceptions and misrepresentations are wrong.

I will also discuss the curious and rather irritating attacks from lefties against Ayn Rand. Most lefties who attack Rand do so purely based on what they think she wrote and said, and on what other lefties have made up about her. Very few lefties have read any Rand. But they feel the need to vent all the same.