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Bill Maher on Friday trashed the current wave of libertarianism, singling out Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as \"intellectually stuck in their teen years.\" <\/p>\n
\"New rule,\" Maher said on \"Real Time with Bill Maher.\" \"Libertarians have to stop ruining libertarianism. Or at least do a better job of explaining the difference between today's libertarian and just being a selfish prick.\" <\/p>\n
Maher, who has described himself as libertarian in the past, said that at some point, \"libertarianism morphed into this creepy obsession with free market capitalism\" based on Ayn Rand's \"Atlas Shrugged.\" <\/p>\n
\"Her book has a strange appeal to people who are kind of smart, but not really,\" he said. <\/p>\n
He said libertarianism as it stands now has gone \"nuts.\" <\/p>\n
\"To everyone who keeps trying to shame me about abandoning my libertarian moorings, my message is this: I didn't go nuts, this movement did,\" he said. \"Like when you see a stoplight, your reaction should be 'Great, an easy way to ensure we don't all crash into each other,' not, 'How dare the government tell me when I can and cannot go? Seatbelts? I refuse to live in a nanny state. I'm an individual and I want to soar free as an eagle -- right through the windshield.\" <\/p>\n
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