Holy shit I'm sick of dealing with libertarians.

"The government doesn't need to be meddling in our lives.

But muh roads
muh military
muh borders"

I can sympathize with socialists and communists in that they believe the state is immoral and wish to abolish it in favor of communes or local representative bodies.  I can understand classical liberals in that they believe the government has a responsibility to the well-being of its citizens but shouldn't meddle in the voluntary exchanges of a free market.  Libertarians just make no fucking sense to me anymore, though.  They say that the government is incompetent, but still want that same government managing an army, a country's borders, and public infrastructure.  If you believe the government is so incompetent, why the hell would you want them managing some of the most complex and difficult-to-manage aspects of a society?

/nonsensical rant

It seems like the loudest libertarians tend to be closet Republicans who don't want to be associated with the GOP, or otherwise people who basically got kicked out of the GOP for allegedly being RINOs. To qualify for the latter, one can still be pretty goddamn conservative.

The connotation sucks. Can't be taken seriously as a slightly libertarian-leaning liberal, so I just avoid the word entirely.