Snarking on Libertarians in depth: More dramatic and newsworthy, part 2

A week ago, I started snarking on an original blog post about Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen, the way the LP handles presidential nominations, and Richard Winger's reactions to that. I decided that becaues the post was getting long enough, and also had two different angles of snark, I would split it into two parts.

So here you go on Part 2.

And thank you, Google, for returning that photo at left in the first page of image search results.

The second half of the header comes from Richard's third comment to that post, about unpledged delegates:

(I)t makes the Libertarian conventions more dramatic and newsworthy than a convention where it is obvious in advance who is going to be nominated.

Well, this is all interesting, of course.

And, it's going to lead me to Libertarian philosophy, even theology (sic).

I suggested that, if delegates are unpledged, primaries, and even more caucuses or conventions, should just select some Rando Libertarians (sounds cooler than "random" and also plays off the most infamous Libertarian-type leading light of the last century) off the street. In my third response to Richard, I went further and said that, if (for this year) eight pre-COVID in-person and six post-COVID fears online debates weren't enough, and unpledged delegates had to have JUST ONE MORE at the convention, then ...

Why not ixnay ALL those other debates?

After all, "Pure Land Capitalist" (Google those first two words by themselves) Libertarians are about money, money, money, to the exclusion of everything but no gummint, no gummint, no gummint.

Besides THAT?

Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was derived from the "wind up the universe like a clock" god of Enlightenment Deism. (It was, you can find references in "The Wealth of Nations," and stop trying to deny it. I've got receipts. And as I said on the original post linked up top, I said years ago that the idea of Home economics rationalis has been directly refuted by behavioral psychology, and indirectly, as a refudiation of the Invisible Hand, by quantum mechanics.)

I told you we'd get to Libertarian theology, a phrase that probably makes the toes of Randians curl.

So, since that's really a form of philosophical determinism (a thought that would make the average Enlightenment Deist's toes curl, but they were part of their Enlightenment "universe," were they not?), let's take this to today. (Randians' toes may curl more.)

By this Libertarian theology, the presidential nominee has already been determined, as have the actions leading up to it. So why bother with any organized apparatus at all? Become anarcho-Libertarians!