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Re:How I Became a Libertarian by recursivedoubts on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:18AM (#27015037)
libertarianism is an interesting & coherent political philosophy, but I notice that it keeps losing

my understanding is that, from a political perspective, the idea is to win

Re:How I Became a Libertarian by listless on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:06AM (#27015414)
This is an excellent point. And I _think_ that the answer is that government is inherently about control. Both sides seek to gain power and then use it to control and manipulate people into behaving a certain way. Politics itself is essentially at odds with libertarianism.
Re:How I Became a Libertarian by smitty1e on Sunday May 02, 2021 @12:00PM (#27016338)
Perhaps libertarianism itself and alone is less than sufficient as a political system.