In a May 20 letter, Miles Holden wrote that Liberals yearn for our chains – that we make a religion of submission to authority.

It’s true that unhealthy mental habits are pretty common in our culture – regardless of one’s political philosophy. Submission and co-dependency however, seem more prevalent among Libertarians. They seem resentful of government and obsessed with it. Yet, they maintain a large party apparatus to gain control of the government.

I feel they’re acting out a primitive, unconscious archetype of the hero, who is dependent on nobody. Meanwhile, we are all totally dependent on large-scale cooperation for food, energy, and everything else.

Holden ran for senate in 2004 as a Libertarian on a platform of privatizing Metro Transit, privatizing lanes of the freeway, privatizing schools into a charter school system.

The predictable result of Libertarian policies would be to trade government regulation over our society, for control by powerful individuals within the money system. Libertarians seem to assume the money system is a meritocracy, that everybody has equal ability, and those without money deserve their fate.

However, the money system is a disgusting sham. The federal reserve, banks, and wall street print endless amounts of money unearned, and pretending legitimacy. Allocating this counterfeit money to themselves and their friends, they already control the economy and political system of the country.

It is ironic that Libertarians can’t see who their real enemy is. It’s not liberals. It’s the financial industries, and the big asset holders who hide behind them. We need to join forces. The nation is under attack – by its own plutocracy.

Todd Boyle, Kirkland