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While they professed a hands off philosophy, it was more geared to hands off anything that affect our selves and businesses. If anyone else benefits from this approach, it is purely by accident, since the key element of a Libertarian is a self-affecting quality. Mind you, these are the same people who had no qualms about working with Stalin or Hitler's Germany prior to and during WWII. They were seen as fringe loons until the Koch children started buying their way into mainstream Republicanism around the 80s. Rank in file Republicans mercilessly mocked the Kocks from the 60s through the late 70s, and the sons finally got even.
Libertarians are actually the biggest takers of public largesse, where they subscribe to all available programs--viewing the one they get as somehow deserved and the ones they can't plug into as a tax they are somehow paying to subsidize others. They love government manipulation if it benefits their bottom line, else they fight it vigorously.
Because these people are mentally deranged, there has never been one successful state, or government built on Libertarianism, though several have been tried. Sooner or later the residents resent having others control their lives, there is in-fighting or power struggles and land grabs or they want to be the leader or ignore the elected leaders and these communities all fall apart.
Libertarians have since morphed into a more radicalized variant of greed. They are placed in the center of the Venn because they are the epicenter of what is all wrong with the Modern Conservative movement. They would enjoy a fascist state, as long as the fascism was their fascism and they were the top dogs and called the shots.
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