While listening to a recent debate between Mark Pellegrino and Dave Smith, I had a sudden strike of clarity regarding the stark difference between Libertarianism and Objectivism’s politics. It followed from the questioning of how on Earth a political philosophy who pretends to preach for individual liberty could end up defending Hamas or equating the regimes of Palestine and the rest of the Middle East to Israel? How could a man be so keen on the fact that Israel owns most of the land of the country, while being so evasive about the lives of Israelis and Palestinians under the Hamas and PLO regimes?
The answer followed almost automatically; probably driven by my long-time consuming content made by Libertarians, always with a greater distrust and disgust.