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Love Capitalism, Hate Democracy?

If libertarians had a slogan it would be:

LOVE CAPITALISM
HATE DEMOCRACY

It is hard to base a political platform which, in a nutshell, states that 99.9% of the population are parasites.


This guy is not a role model


Neither should 

or


 
 













but the doctrine of selfishness says that they and

This guy


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

are heroes


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