Curia Regis disse:
It's unfortunate that Trey and Matt are shitty libertarians. I am a libertarian going way back and always appreciated South Park for being libertarian, though by their own admission (Trey and Matt) they don't consider themselves as taking libertarian positions, just using common sense. Yeah, that became apparent, for I came to realize they have no depth in their worldview. As for Trump, I reconciled myself to support Trump for libertarian reasons. There is simply no comparison between the left of Clinton or Bernie Sanders and the right of Trump. Not only is border control a libertarian issue, regardless of what the globalist shills of groups like 'Reason' believe (I'll stick with folks like Mises and Murray Rothbard, thank you), but so is reducing taxes, massively reducing regulation, respecting citizenship, wanting trade that opens up foreign markets (Trump admitted his tariffs were a tactic to compel other nations to remove their tariffs), and on top of all that, Trump has criticized our military interventions and has proven, in spite of his bellicose, to be more cautious in our military engagements (hopefully we will remain free of the war hawks who want us attacking Syria/Iran). Add to this that Trump is willing to be skeptical about the Federal Reserve, hates the lying, manipulative media, and is aware of the corporate corruption of politics at every level. Trump may be buffoonish, but he is just the buffoon to disrupt our horribly corrupt political class. Compare this to Clinton, who is a corporate globalist of the worst sort and hopelessly corrupt, and Bernie Sanders, who is a straight-up socialist fool. Any libertarian fears the totalitarianism of socialism because they understand it. Trey and Matt are the sort of people who lean libertarian when they are younger, then become "aware" that people need some universal health care, that too much capital corrupts, etc. That becomes their "common sense" and yet they have no appreciation of how stupid it is. They easily fall prey to the illogic of people who pretend our markets are free and that if government can't do something then we are subject to some kind of corrupt, corporate anarchy. Hence the idea of government "helping" us in the usual socialist way that has been debunked by classical liberals/libertarians going back to Madison and Jefferson and beyond. Trey and Matt did miss a huge opportunity for political commentary. Rather, South Park became just another mouthpiece for the pretentious, global establishment. The show that once defied the powerful became the mouthpiece for the powerful. The show that used to see the ideas behind the surface became just another show that focused on the superficial aspects of Trump's crude way of expressing himself. Like a lot of former South Park fans I now hate what South Park has become. Trey and Matt really did come to a point where they have nothing to say, as they admit here. They didn't develop intellectually and it shows. They literally didn't keep up with the smarter portion of their audience who loved and supported South Park for so many years. Having said that, South Park has made so many fantastic episodes and nobody can take that away from them. The show has been a cultural juggernaut and I will always think fondly of at least a dozen or more episodes.