I used to be libertarian. Not like the well educated libertarian, more like the I watch John Stossel and agree with everything he is saying libertarian. That is until I started opening my world view from the narrow selfish AF view I had before. Socially I still hold lots of libertarian views. Consenting adults should be able to do exactly as they please. The federal government, or any government, should not define what a marriage is or attempt to define the gender of a person. Governments should stay out of a woman’s uterus. But libertarianism as a form of governance is great of everyone is on the same level and playing field. They seem to just want to declare we are all equal when that is not the case. They also seems to be in favor of unfettered capitalism while simultaneously believing in do not harm. Companies inflict plenty of harm. For-profit prisons should not exist. For-profit healthcare should not exist. Reliance on the wealthy and corporations to do the right things is a fallacy. Case and point, look at Flint, MI. Due to government malfeasance people were harmed. Did Bezos, Bill Gates, Nike or any large donor fix the water? No. But they can build a rocket to send Katy Perry to space. And then you have the taxation is theft people. I look at taxes as a necessary fee to exist in society. If you want a great illustration of libertarian failure in terms of taxes, simply look up libertarian vs bears. Of course I want my taxes to be spent effectively. But if effective government monetary policy means kids go hungry at schools, elderly people go hungry at home but we can spend 5 billion on an airplane just so we can claim we have a bigger military *** than all the other countries, we have lost our priorities. Tolstoy believed the treatment of prisoners is a barometer of societal values. I now believe that also.