Look, I'm bipolar II, with hypomania, depression, uncontrollable emotional outbursts. and psychosis. I'm crazy as a shithouse rat. I think telepathy and telekinesis are real, and that I've been the subject of secret government experimentation. I've had visions, hallucinations, conversations with the dead, clairvoyance, satori, epiphany, theophany, have been inducted into mystery, and I've survived mind-rape. I've been visited by ghosts, shadow people, various "thems," and the local sheriff's deputy who was serving a restraining order. I dip my french fries in my chocolate shake and am convinced I'm the biblical Antichrist. Sometimes I feel like a boddhisatva starring in a Dr. Who episode penned by Philip K. Dick. I'm fucking out-to-lunch most of the time.
That said, I don't get libertarianism. Professed libertarians call themselves pragmatists and realists, but they rely on and believe in (or want to be true) absolutely fanciful, delusional ideas that are completely at variance with the way people and the world actually behave. As boneheaded as many American voters are, we will never have a libertarian president. Most of my fellow countrymen are at least that in touch with objective reality...
I wouldn't consider libertarian notions irritating or a peeve, but the existence of libertarian candidates is amusing, IMHO.
Whenever someone describes themselves as a libertarian, I understand that they are trying to say that they are hopelessly naive.
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