Not only that, they created the Tea Party of whole cloth, got the media to make them mainstream and demogogued their way into power in 2010. Synder is part of that election, just like Walker in WI, Rand Paul of KY and others.
This dangerous pile of waste is why the Libertarian Party, founded by Koches, wants to get rid of the EPA and also to sell everything to these fascists.
Yet their interpretation of civil libertarianism is widely praised, too bad about those minorities, women, the poor and disabled. But with 'liberty' only for the rich, misery for the rest of us. They go out of their way to take the vote from us, if they get their way it won't matter, the ones with the power of life and death will corporatists and theocrats.
And the planet be damned, to hell with regulations of any kind for the civil rights or health of others, as it interferes with their 'freedom' to be rich.
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange(2). Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms...
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
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