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

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One big authoritarian thing I've noticed is how both of the big parties don't consider voting to be a right or an honor, they only see it as a way to game the system to get what they want. That is the epitome of authoritarian way of thinking. As a person who likes freedom I don't see an authoritarian party system losing votes because a small number of people vote for good candidates to be a bad thing.

I don't see the two things as being exclusive of one another. Having the honor and right to vote does not exclude that people are doing so only to get what they want. I believe most if not everyone who casts a vote is doing so to get something that they want. If we never got anything we wanted from the voting process (a disincentive) eventually, intelligent people would stop voting.

Gaming the system, which could alternately be described as using strategy (good or bad) to get elected is sort of like using scientific principles to improve your advertising campaign.

I have no dog in this argument Libertarian vs Republican vs Democrat vs Green vs MLP party. I vote for candidates who will do what I want them to do (like that ever happens). Right now, I want the party most likely to not destroy my country, state, and community quickly, to control the government. I don't for a minute believe that any candidate actually believes or supports all of the things on their party's platform. I don't like election campaigns but I am happy to have a say about who gets to represent me.

If you aren't in it to win it, you won't.