What you are noticing is that one person's just cause is another person's business model. For many people the call to "have freedom and keep the government out your life" sounds wonderful, even if they either don't know exactly what that means, or if it means 1000 different things to 1000 people. It just sounds good. But it also allows some other people in the process to make more money. e.g. if you make money by digging something out the ground and selling it, you don't want to be told you can't dig any more and you don't want to be told you have to fill the hole in when you're done and put all the plants and wildlife back how it was. So you get a symbiotic relationship emerging between these two groups of folks : the money-makers spend their time and effort pushing "freedom", for purely personal gain, while the freedom-lovers eat it up, improving their self-esteem and feeling good about themselves even though they have very little actual freedom, and a big dirty hole in the ground next to their town.