Dr. Martin Hash Podcast

Conscientious people are attracted to Libertarian ideology because at its core it rewards the monetary success and personal achievement that comes from conscientious behavior. On the flip side, libertarians don't have much sympathy nor patience for flighty self-indulgence, and people who pay more attention to what others are doing than taking care of their own situations, which is what altruistic personalities look like to them. Luckily, both types exist or society could never have formed; somebody has to raise the children and care for the old while others build shelter and fight off the tribe across the hill. Both groups, if isolated, would collapse rather quickly: altruists due to failure to plan for the winter, and libertarians suffering the fate of all minorities that do not recognize that others around them have wants too.

Libertarians are Free Market Capitalists. They're Republicans without religion and military adventurism. They embrace the concept of individual liberty but miss the essential component that will always discredit and undermine them: Libertarians don't try and turn those less successful than themselves into allies. You have to pay attention to how others around you are doing because The Deal may be working for you, but if most of the population think they can do better with a new Deal, they're going to take what they want from you by force.