The nice thing about a republic is that it doesn't require you to have "one size fits all" solutions to problems.
Looking around my community, I see people more given to thoughtful consideration of all the evidence followed by quiet deliberate action than to knee-jerk decisions and desperate histrionics. As a consequence, they seem to need considerably less government than you require.
Now having a republic means that you can have yours without inflicting it on the rest of us. Can you live with that, or are you going to be one we're going to have to fight in order to keep it?
Fight? I will fight when your libertarian friends try to sell my kids a Cocaine Slurpee. I will fight needle parks in my neighborhood. I will fight the gangs that will inevitably thrive in the quasi-legal shadows of legal drugs (see Netherlands).
I will fight any libertarian who sticks a needle in my child’s arm
Yes, I will fight. I will not live with that.