> They favor legalizing all drugs and prostitution.
Don’t see the problem with this. Prohibitionist laws always cause more harm than good. It’s the closest thing to a physical axiom in legislation.
> They do not believe in national borders—period. People should be free to enter into the USA at will, with no government oversight whatsoever.
This point is hotly disputed. What you describe is the anarchist position, and the LP is infested with them. Other libertarians recognize the essential role sovereignty plays in protection of liberty.
> They oppose any government regulation of financial markets.
Government regulation of financial markets has been catastrophic - it has created an oligopoly of “too big to fail” banks and other abuses. “Markets are not actually free unless fraud is vigorously combated and neither profits nor losses are socialized.” - hard to argue with that.
> They would abolish ALL public education at every level.
Bravo to them. GOP would be well to adopt this as public education is almost universally socialist indoctrination. If you send your kids to Catholic school they’ll learn Catholic values. If you send your kids to a government school they’ll learn government values.
> They oppose any government involvement in health care. They would eliminate the VA health system, medicare, & medicaide.
It’s indisputable that government involvement in the health care sector has been catastrophic. Veteran’s health care should be considered an inseparable part of national defense and should not be a separate, civilian institution left to languish in corrupt and unaccountable bureaucracy.
> They would eliminate Social Security and all government retirement systems. They have no plans to replace it with anything.
As anything put in government hands is inevitably stolen, I don’t see the problem here.
> They are isolationist—plain and simple. They would withdraw the US not only from NATO, but from all foreign countries and close any US military bases not on US soil.
It’s not isolationist to avoid entangling alliances. NATO has betrayed its mission and is now doing continuous harm to our national security. Keeping bases around the world is hideously expensive and its contribution to national security is dubious at best.
They are for the moral breakdown of society. Anything goes as long as most of them get their recreational drugs.
They promote social and employment disability by pushing the drugs.
They should only be for the massively disabled or dying having access and never for kids or working age adults to get them.
To me they are ass backwards on many issues.
“Other libertarians recognize the essential role sovereignty plays in protection of liberty.”
You’ll hear things along the line of “if there’s no welfare state, there’s no problem with an open border”. Partially true. The Libertarian platform would be hunky dory if there was little economic and cultural disparity in the world.