Serious question--Anybody ever meet a right-libertarian from an economically deprived background? [View all]

[Jackpine Radical]

I'm on a nonpolitial professional listserv with a member who just quoted some Cato Institute nonsense (about liberalism promoting immorality or something) & announced in an OT discussion that he's a libertarian.

In previous OT discussions he has done a lot of ego posting about his prep school, his Ivy League doctorate, his blueblood ancestry, his acquaintance with the Rich & Famous of the East Coast, etc. Despite all his shallowness, he strikes me as more naive and stupid than actually evil, but thinking about it set me to wondering.

Might it be that a lot of libertarians manage to cling to their narrow, self-serving notions simply because they have never been mugged by reality?