And those are its good points.
Well, it does help keep them put of office.
And the libertarians haven't a clue why. The obvious goes right over their pointy heads. Whoooooosh!
Even funnier is to eavesdrop on a tete-a-tete between disgruntled libertarians discussing Harry Browne. They grouse about how he has taken over the Party and made it his own--how he has become an authoritarian and is completely deaf and immune to their criticisms. It's his money-and-petty-power machine and he's not about to surrender control without a fight.
They don't recongize that libertarianism has its own zealots who would be far, far more suffocating and ham-fisted if they gained power than any "statist" presently is. They really believe their ideology is wholly beneficent and self-correcting. In their blind and total confidence in their political ideology they resemble Marxist zealots more than they resemble any other kind of zealot.