Of the professing Libertarians I have met since college they fall into two categories:
1. Libertines not libertarian - Wanted no constraints on their lives whatsoever. So actually anarchists but they wouldn’t call themselves that.
2. Single issue Libertarians - Pot the issue!, i.e. only concerned about pot - Want to smoke pot whenever & wherever they feel like it.
With 2 being the largest category.
Consider myself a conservative liberatarian (small L) due to overreach of government issues on both sides and the epidemic corruption within the R party. I vote 100% Republican though because I’m not an idiot. If there was a decent L candidate and it wasn’t going to jeopardize something I value, I would vote L.
Those are the ones I see. Doesn't Bill Maher claim to be a libertarian?
I would add a third category: libertines who want the government to pay the health care costs for their misbehaviors.
Of the professing Libertarians I have met since college they fall into two categories:
1. Libertines not libertarian - Wanted no constraints on their lives whatsoever. So actually anarchists but they wouldn’t call themselves that.
2. Single issue Libertarians - Pot the issue!, i.e. only concerned about pot - Want to smoke pot whenever & wherever they feel like it.
With 2 being the largest category.
You nailed it right there.
Back in 2012, we held precinct caucuses here in Minnesota. I was a bit surprised by the amount of younger people who showed up. It didn’t take much to figure out why they were there - especially the guy who looked at me and said “Yo dude, is this where we caucus for Ron Paul?”
This guy, like many others, wasn’t much clued in on Paul’s fiscal policies - but he knew for sure that Paul was for legalizing pot.