Ha. You're not old enough to remember why it is we are all driving Japanese cars now, but you are old enough to help bail out Detroit with your tax dollars.

Fascist Cars is my new band name.

For a while, Saab cars required a fuel/oil mix.

French cars are still pretty much screwball, I think. Not that they're bad, per se, just that they insist on doing pretty much everything differently.

I guess you never saw the British Leyland episode

Unregulated capitalism isn't looking so hot, either.

As for Libertarianism, that's just Communism with a different coat of paint. Both isms rely on everyone thinking that nobody would DREAM of taking over and becoming the supreme leader, or that some kind of "natural forces" would prevent such a thing. Both ideologies are quite naive.

If libertarians ran the world we'd be driving amphibious, flying, rocket powered, time travelling, teleporting, super cars.

that'd be kinda hard to achieve after all the scientists and engineers leave the planet.

and libertarians think basic research that might lead to teleporting/time travel/etc in some scifi future is a giant waste of taxpayer money, so that wouldn't happen.

You know I'm no longer a super hard core libertarian. I like moderately regulated capitalism.

So you aren't a libertarian then.