Great Libertarian film!

Comments like the one youve replied to are best left answered! but I guess youve done a more noble deed by replying! It shows the sheer ignorance and delusion of some people. And gets even more annoying when people PRETEND they know what they are talking about! "Libertarianism is too stupid to be tried"!

Individualists who hold individual freedom and equality to be of the highest importance are known as "liberals".

Individualists with roughly the same viewpoint as liberals, but taking it to an even more radical level by advocating for the severe reduction or outright abolition of the state or any kind of authoritarian institution are known under the umbrella term "anarchists".

And yet, from all conversations I've had with those who claim to be American libertarians, they always vehemently say that they are not anarchists, and most certainly not bleeding heart "libturds". They absolutely despise liberals, despite the fact that what Americans today call "libertarianism" is actually a reinvention of classical liberalism (i.e. "market" liberalism, as opposed to "social" liberalism that modern liberals follow). Heck, libertarians outside the United States are better known as anarchists among themselves and to other people, and yet American libertarians tend to dislike being called as such, seeing it as a "left wing" appellation.

So what are you really then? I've said this before in other threads, but I've always found American libertarians puzzling. Even contradictory.

Most other individualists focus on social issues like privacy, justice, or human rights. American libertarians, on the other hand, seem to be more about letting big business do whatever they want, even when it impinges on individual liberties. Not to mention, their stances on social issues tend to be conservative (i.e. authoritarian, in the "everyone must follow tradition or else" way).

Many members of the "grassroots" (yeah right, haha) Tea Party, for example, claim to be libertarians. Even as they fall all over themselves supporting things like citizenship papers check based on your ethnicity, suspension of habeas corpus rights like the Patriot Act, or pushing their brand of evangelicalism to be made part of the constitution. They're also highly nationalistic and xenophobic, odd for people who claim to hate the US government. All of the latter are NOT about individual rights.

Seems to me that Libertarianism in the US is really just another name for hyperconservative authoritarianism, just with someone else in charge. The only thing they have in common with other individualists is that they distrust governments. And even then, not that much. As the government most American "libertarians" object to seems to only be Obama's.

Libertarianism has already been tried. In 1776 to be exact. And it succeeded. Overwhelmingly.

The United States itself was founded upon Libertarian principles. Most US founders were Libertarian in their belief systems.

Not true.

Americans have to bring their warped political spectrum into everything.
Liberterians want to live on armed compounds, wrapped in the flag, clutching a bible with guns.