As much as libertarians drive me crazy, there are some who are smart and serious. You will get the best thinking on libertarianism from Reason Magazine, which I once subscribed to. Still, it is mostly all the usual theoretical, trapped in our own minds kind of nonsense that is libertarianism. But sometimes, they make me smile. Like today.

J.D. Tuccille writes, When Right-To-Work Is Wrong and Un-Libertarian. He basically says what I said on Monday. Of course, he is much more respectful because he’s part of a Fantasy Politics team. But it is encouraging to read. In particular, he makes the argument that there is a difference between “free markets” and “pro-business.” This is an excellent distinction because as a rule businesses are not in favor of a free market.

Unfortunately, the idiots who read the magazine are not even as enlightened as Tuccille. The first comment to the article is simple, “I want to work. I don’t ever want to join a union.” What that has to do with the subject, I can’t say. But this one is more typical, “The business is coerced into its contract with, and association with, the union, under our current labor laws.” Ah! So businesses can organize themselves anyway they want. Business laws don’t, for example, coerce workers to have to work for corporations. But laws that allow workers to do what one would think would be a right—things like organizing with coworkers and refusing to work—those are coercive. I think I understand. Business goood! Worker baaad!

I’ve got to stop reading the rantings of libertarians; it is just too upsetting. Even when they are shown what rights really mean, they can’t accept it. They just know that private contracts between people are bad when they don’t like the people making those contracts. Reality goood! Libertarians stuuupid!