For most of its followers, Libertarianism is a means to an end, a label that can be shed and worn repeatedly, a justification rather a-way-of-life.

Other People need the help of government? They should stop being lazy and put their faith in the free market.

My folks need government help? Well we deserve it, give it to us, right now, don’t delay, don’t you have a heart?

Compared to the members of communist, conservative and other demanding and identity-integral idealogies, libertarians are far smaller in number and altogether weaker as an independant political force.