Libertarians are anarchists who would lose in a knife fight.

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rocketpig said:

Squilliam said:

It is a shame that in these debates a strong liberal is classed as someone who would want people to become dependant on government handouts and a libertarian is someone who is classed as a person who doesn't care about the suffering of the people or whom wants to foster a plutocracy, a ruling class of the wealthy.

I don't understand this, either. Ideologically, Libertarians are split right between the parties. 

For example, people are often surprised when they find out I'm a Libertarian but have voted Democrat. They seem to think Libertarians are just an offshoot of the GOP. Once the GOP started spending money like drunken apes, I saw no point in putting up with their intolerance any longer and have been splitting a lot of my votes since that time.

I've never voted Republican outside of a primary myself... and then it was just to get John McCain because before he was even elected I knew George W. Bush was going to be a trainwreck.