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Has the possibility that many people do understand and just disagree crossed your mind?
As far as I'm concerned your post provides an apt illustration of why the libertarian party is a joke. Libertarians are defined by their contrarianism, and their unwillingness to cooperate or be members of a polity. It's always "their way or the highway" but not knowing what their way is they tend to gravitate towards strong men who they imagine will "cut through the red tape" and "fix the problems" for them. This is why you see so many ostensible libertarians making excuses for guys like Putin and shilling for groups like the CCP and the Mexican Cartels. This in conjunction with time the apparent inability and/or unwillingness to distinguished between government through buy-in of the governed and government at gun-point is why so many on the normie right and center left view libertarians with a mix of suspicion and contempt.
The libertarians seem to think that they can do away with government but not end up ruled by cartels or warlords in their wake. Either because everyone will be armed to the teeth and can blow anyone away who looks crooked at you, which doesn't seem all that different from living in the crime-infested slums with the criminal gangs running around shooting each other, or because the magic power of legal contracts will make everyone behave. How will the courts enforce any of these decisions? Well something something private insurance companies something something, which turn out to be in effect private mercenary forces, which once again how is this different from living under a warlord?
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