The problem with right-libertarians (henceforth referred to as 'minarchists') is that they literally only believe the way they do
because it benefits them.
Which isn't to say this is a bad thing
prima facie: I wouldn't befault a working-class liberal for wanting what he wants, or, conversely, a Southern hick. But unique among the ideologies is the fact that the minarchists are remarkably
pro-State for being such a group of 'radical' 'individualists' who are going to 'change everything (when) (if) they get into power'.
For instance, if one wanted to be philosophically true to his roots, a
genuine minarchist could make a fine case that
the root of all war is the State, and hence to totally defund the State is to defund the State's ability to wage war - for the betterment of humanity. But that would threaten the
Military Keynesianism so favored by men of the Right - "we'll happily inflate the economy to stimulate artificial jobs - in the military-industrial compex" - since the Eisenhower Administration. And so Reagan runs massive deficits to 'defeat' an 'enemy' that had been on the brink of collapse since
détente, and
the radical minarchist! cheers and calls for funneling more money into black-ops projects.
In other words, the philosophy of the American minarchist is a philosophy of 'buts'. Liberty for all!... but the gays, when they prove to be politically inconvenient to a forsaken marriage with the Republican Party. Self-ownership
to all!... save the self-ownership of the woman over her means of sexual reproduction; those must be overseen by her local and Religious authorities. Government isn't the answer to our problems; government
is the problem - except in the foreign arena, where our
State-funded military is the answer, and there we need a Victory Tax to Support Our Boys. And above all,
you will be patriotic: there's no socialism like national socialism!
The right-minarchist is the one-dimensional man: the
sole, only, and defining reason he hates the State is because the State is a threat to his stock options. Hence removing the State from the market has become his
raison d'existence; he is quite literally incapable of thinking about the other ways that the State threatens its own citizens (he is willfully oblivious because, quite frequently, he agrees with the oppression of State-enforced social norms - the right-minarchist is usually a retrograde reactionist, blissful in ignorance, whose so-called "ideology", if not physical form, seem fresh out of the fetid boonies of Cajun country).
Would a worthless mouth like
dead0man have any use in totally neutering the United States military as a threat to the future existence of the species? Of course not. For one, the idea is reprehensible to him; his anti-State rhetoric is a posture, a social function designed to set him aside from "the masses". And two, that's how he feeds himself: intellectual honesty is secondary to filling his belly. He is more than content after eating to rub his tummy, burp, and return to his idiot-dreams. What does the jackboot care about the size of the foot walking over it? It can't think, and neither can the minarchist.
That's the problem with the joke that is libertarianism, American-style: not that it's radical, but that it's a half-asses collage of every worthless and reactionary idea under the sun. By so perverting the root nature of libertarianism, these jackasses have made it politically useless.
