On Ayn Rand's Libertarianism

I don't enjoy saying negative things about Libertarianism because I like their anti-state independence, I would probably vote for Rand Paul, but libertarians rarely say anything about big business taking away the freedom of small business, they tend to not like anti-trust laws. But the Constitution splits the powers of government and it could have been more explicit, rather than implicit, about not allowing big business to dominate both small business and big government.

The Goddess of libertarians, Ayn Rand, chose not to see the deeper motivations behind individualism, that is, that selection takes place ultimately at the group level. In the long run if the group doesn't survive and prosper the individual does not. The “tribal premise”and altruism do not automatically lead to statism, as Rand suggested, the individual and the group tend to advance best in small states, virtually ethnostates, with a limited federalism mainly to protect the independence of the states.

The animus Rand feels toward “tribalism” and group behavior cannot be underestimated in her philosophy. Her experience of Soviet Russia and Fascist Germany seemed to have biased Rand's judgment against group behavior, a big mistake in someone who so loudly affirmed reason. Sociobiology didn’t reach her, and sociobiology had been around for a decade or so before she died.