John Tammy relies on his "libertarian instincts" to make the case in a Forbes piece whose style makes it hard, at times, to tell where the movie ends and real life begins:

On its face the book reveals the oppressive cruelty that is big government. Indeed, while the global political class and their enablers in the media to this day try to explain away droughts and the resulting famines from an “Act of God” point of view, the simple truth is that economically free countries don’t suffer them.



Though food is surely the most essential, life-enhancing good on the planet, it’s plentiful in the most barren of climates where it’s not grown or farmed owing to the free-trade truth that we trade products for products; all manner of non-perishable items exchanged for food with great regularity. Simply put, visitors to Arizona don’t witness distended bellies among the citizenry due to a lack of farmers, instead Arizona is prosperous and its citizens well fed for the latter pursuing all manner of work the product of which enables them to freely exchange the fruits of their labor for other goods, including groceries.

You guys, he's talking about real life.

He goes on to discuss how people in Ethiopia are starving, because Big Government. (In fact, one of the worst famines in the world is happening right now in a place with no government at all.)