Have you ever seen a unicorn?

Libertarians eagerly self-describe as freedom-worshipers, an interesting religion to say the least. Since they think freedom is an end in itself, government may only ever do three things: preserve peace and order, administer justice, and defend the country. Anything beyond this is a form of tyranny.

What’s so very fascinating about this freedom-centric utopian vision is that it has never once in the history of mankind been successfully implemented. No society has ever been built on so tiny and impotent a form of governance.

Now the libertarian might try to persuade you that the Constitution did so, but this fable only lives by forgetting the tremendously robust forms of government which existed at the state and local level among the thirteen societies represented at the Convention, all of which would be classified as tyrannies by today’s libertarian .

So, when you hear people assert that libertarianism is the true form of government, try to resist the luring ideological simplicity of the claim and ask why it’s never actually been tried before.