The LP, when they began, took bits and pieces of all kinds of political philosphies, mashed them together, and they just do NOT mix. The " good " parts, which some here tout, are old fashioned REPUBLICAN ideals/ideas; heck, even Conservative Dems, in the '40s & '50s held those beliefs.
Libertarians are like the pencilnecked geek, who used to wear a bow tie to school, smoke a pipe, because he thought it made him look intelligent, and would spout a buncch of intellectual sounding garbage/the pathetic girl, who no one wanted to know, who dragged a copy of " WAR & PEACE " around with her, in the summer, and never read beyond page 3. Then, the " Beats " entered the scene, and these dolts said they were " Beats ". Then, the Hippies came on the scene and they became " weekend Hippies ".
Now, they're L/libertarians, because they have distain for the Dems ( though they agree with much of their positions )and the GREENS ( whom they're REALLY like !); not to mention the hooligan " anti-Globalists " ( who they're too cowardly to join )!
I am laughing so hard at your last post I may require oxygen!
What a hoot!