How Exactly Do Libertarians “Support Healthcare?”

California’s state constitution allows for something called a “recall election,” i.e., an opportunity for voters to unseat a governor and replace him with someone else.  Unlike impeachment, no charges are brought, nor does any specific reason need to be given, and the process of setting a vote to recall in motion requires only the collection of 12% of the number of signatures that represented the total ballots cast in the last election (2018).

Unsurprisingly, state Republicans hated the Democratic governor Gavin Newsom from his first day in office, and made four unsuccessful attempts to gather these signatures before they eventually succeeded.  Now, if a majority of voters cast their ballots for recall next Tuesday, he will be removed and likely replaced with the extremely conservative libertarian Larry Elder, whose policies include:

• Rescinding masks and vaccination mandates.

• Opposing minimum wage rules, public assistance programs, tuition breaks at state colleges and universities for state residents, sanctuary laws, and DACA.

• Unapologetically associating himself with Donald Trump, as well as with Trump’s uncompromising anti-immigrant advisor, Stephen Miller.

Now, check out the photo above, which my wife just took in the neighborhood in which 2GreenEnergy’s “headquarters” is located, in a rural section of Santa Barbara County.  Note the ludicrous claim: “Support Healthcare.”   The Libertarians’ viewpoints of healthcare is that it should be private and unsubsidized, and thus available only to people who can afford it.

The relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions will mean that, within a few months, California will look like Florida, with hospital ICUs and morgues overflowing.

Anyone who thinks that this is somehow supporting healthcare is using some deeply twisted logic, the kind that made the recall election possible in the first place.