[Jack Black]

I really like your comments above, they mirror my thinking. I've got a good friend who is closely tied to the Reason crowd. He's a brilliant guy, but he also has "leftist reflexes". He can post three great articles on Facebook, and then follow it up with some pro-gay marriage thing (where the courts are basically shoving this down our throats) without blinking an eye, or understanding the connections and contradictions of his positions.

It's Frustrating. Some of it I put down to lack of the will to tell lefty friends they are idiots, and being kicked out of the "cool kids" clique. Hey, that happens everywhere, even here at FR!

[cdcdawg]

“Some of it I put down to lack of the will to tell lefty friends they are idiots, and being kicked out of the “cool kids” clique.”

Well said. I think the hipster Libertarians like being on the outside. They only have to criticize the two party system, and it allows them to have a somewhat coherent world view, while still towing the pop-culture line so they don’t piss off their lefty friends over a growler of craft beer. It’s also a way to be somewhat edgy and challenging to impress hipster girls. In politicians, the fiscally conservative and socially liberal type ALWAYS reverts to being liberal on both.

I have fun with those people by telling them that all I want in immigration are the same restrictions described for Galt’s Gulch in Atlas Shrugged (you had to be invited). I’ve offered this several times, and never gotten a response.