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RoadsterUFO posted...

The most vocal libertarians are too busy in meaningless utopian fantasies or meaningless debates over minuscule extremely hypothetical scenario arguments and calling everyone not libertarian enough with their purity dick measuring contest. It is a debate club with ballot access for vocal basement dwellers that have little to zero social skills.

i think a lot of politically active libertarians descend into idealistic hypothetical scenarios because libertarianism within a representative democratic context is a political tightrope

at fundamental odds with many, even most political demographics - government workers (civilian and educators of all levels, military, law enforcement), elderly, poor, disabled, crony corporations and banks, ngos all enjoying the fruits of policy at odds with libertarianism, be it by way of funding or regulatory capture that is in the interest of one segment or another

never mind the fact that the endgame of party politics is purity spiraling, so libertarians focused on the electoral process are utterly distracted from more practical, direct, and less governmental means of realizing their ideals (imo the blockchain camp has done more for libertarianism in the modern era than most anyone except giants of libertarian, chicagoan, austrian economic thought, never mind government institutions that perennially hurt their own credibility with their antics)

basically if libertarians (and greens for that matter) want to make change from within, they should do what the DSA and progressives on the left, and many paleos (and disgraced neos, unfortunately) on the right do and form formidable blocs within the major parties to push their agendas

/rant

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