Quote:Why do people always conflate smaller government proponents with Anarchists? Is it just ignorance or is it intentional to straw man the debate? None of us have ever advocated for doing away with "a" federal government, but it always seems to come back to that extreme position.

 

No, it's just that by default people try to give people the benefit of the doubt of not being hypocrites.

 

If you're not for eliminating government then what you're really doing is just arguing levels of authoritarianism, which makes your position quite disingenuous. Essentially amounting to, "I don't approve of these parts of government you like, I think we should only have the parts that Iike." Which is a perfectly reasonable position to have, but it's hypocritical to attempt to label yourself libertarian, because you don't want liberty that everyone approves of, you want everyone to be subject to what you call liberty, which makes you the same as those you rail against as dependent on big government.

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