That’s a nice little box you built for Libertarians. Too bad few will actually fit in it.
In the aftermath of the election, my wife and I were feeling particularly disgusted with the sad state of political affairs in this country. We are very conservative people, both socially and fiscally, believe in small government, and are committed Christ followers (the kind that actually have a living relationship with our risen Savior, not the kind that park their dead butts in a dead church once a week to go through worn-out religious motions). We were discussing the way our views on how things should be done have changed, but our basic values have stayed the same. We somehow got on the subject of Libertarians and decided to read the LP’s platform so that we could actually see what they believe rather than what others say they believe.
We could find very little in the Libertarian Party’s platform that we could disagree with. It is the philosophy of responsible adults who don’t believe we have the right to treat other adults like children who need to be ordered about. I’m not a registered Libertarian, but I am done with being treated like a serf by the GOP.
It is not that the “box” as you deem it is wrong but rather that many who sport the label do so from a rather linear understanding of the meaning of Libertarianism.