Serious Question...how can you possibly NOT be a libertarian?

[Justin]

no politician I have seen lately has even 75-80% of what I want... but I settle for the basics.. fiscal conservancy, less government, stay out of people's lives.

perhaps a bit of integrity..

This has nothing to do whatsoever with agreement with politicians.

I said "you" with the intention of making it understood that the reason you get so many libertarians telling you to go fuck yourself is the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of why someone who's libertarian chooses to vote that way.

Many Republicans, including the most vocal anti-libertarian ones who post on this forum, seem to labor under the delusion that political fear mongering and appeals to political partisan victory are things likely to motivate libertarians.

They quite frankly, aren't, and I find it remarkable that, after years of using those tactics here, the libertarian haters haven't clued in to the fact that if you want to get the vote of someone who's libertarian, you can't motivate them with the same psychological impulses that motivate the average Republican*.

While there may be significant crossover in the beliefs of conservatives and libertarians, the underlying mindset motivating why those beliefs are held and how their expressed are completely different, and some would argue, ultimately incompatible.



*The other likely option is that the libertarian haters here aren't actually interested in a discussion likely to convince a libertarian to vote for their side so much as they are just looking for a convenient target to lash out at because that's way easier than actually examining and meaningfully addressing the epic amounts of stupidity that appears to be endemic to the Colorado GOP.