How is there anything that offends you about the Libertarian Platform?

The points you make are all total abstractions. EVERY political movement has these abstract goals. We just want everything to be fair. We want all men to be brothers, to be good to one another and to cooperate towards shared goals. We think every human being is entitled to dignity and blah blah blah. The Soviets, the Maoists, the Nazis all had these kinds of things in their literature (and no, I'm not comparing libertarians to those people, just pointing out the similarity between political schools in terms of abstract values and objectives). Nobody hates peace and love and freedom and justice and brotherhood, we just disagree about how to get there.

What bothers me about libertarianism is some of the more concrete ideas they have. The basic idea is that if we just eliminate a lot of laws, people will just be good by themselves. I think this ignores why most laws were thought to be needed in the first place. (Not all laws certainly, but most.)

There are other ideas that I just don't think have been really totally considered. Ron Paul, for instance, wants to abolish the Federal Reserve. Well the Fed is corrupt, we all agree, and they don't do their job nearly as well as they could. But they were put in place to regulate the money supply, so as to soften the boom/bust cycle. Which I think they've done, imperfectly but with some positive effect. If you eliminate the Fed, how are you going to regulate the money supply? You know what? I've never heard Ron Paul answer this question. Because I've never heard anyone ask it!

He also wants to go back on the gold standard. That will decrease our money supply by maybe 60-80% by eliminating what libertarians like to call 'fiat money'. That would be like a nuclear bomb going off in our economy. How can you prevent that? Another question I've never heard Ron Paul asked.

Years ago, libertarians (and big-L-Libertarians, members of the Libertarian Party) tended to be well-studied and very interesting to talk to or write to. They'd read a lot, they'd done their homework, and they could really put up a good argument in a discussion. I still didn't agree with them but I had more respect for them because they'd at least given some thought to the ideas on their own. I loved talking to them because I would always learn something.

Today small-l libertarians (we never seem to hear from big-L Libertarians anymore) are Tea Partiers. Their motivation is mostly anger, they get their facts wrong and they don't care, because it's not about facts. They tend to repeat slogans rather than giving you their own thoughts. They seem to think the GOP is going to give them what they want even though the party has consistently broken its promises for 30 years.

Liberatartans want, an oligarchic dictatorship where the rich and powerful rule over everyone like serfs.

The Libertarian ideology is based on fiction. It is completely based on fiction novels by pulp fiction author Ayn Rand.

Libertarianism is utiopian like communism. Utopias don't exist in reality.

A libertarian government would collapse for the same reason communism collapsed, because it is an economic system, not a form of government.

Libertarians worship money and greed.

The Libertarian would allow owners of restaurants and other public accommodations to discriminate on the basis of race or religion returning us to the days when white only lunch counters were the norm in some areas of this country, or baring Jews from golf courses was an acceptable policy. Libertarians would also be ok with discrimination based on gender in the workplace. baring woman from having equal opportunities in employment.

Libertarianism is a through back to a much less enlighten time.

Alex Jones. He is the paranoid Billy Carter of the Libertarian Party.

Not helping anybody outside of your party, killing babies, saying poor people shouldn't have an opportunity to go to public school, and legalizing prostitution.

Libertarians are idiots.

Your leadership has repeatedly opposed freedom and liberty.

Ron Paul and rand Paul both oppose equal marriage rights, the civil rights act, gay adoption, right to choice, and support the keystone pipeline which forcibly steals Americans land and hands it over to a foreign company.

It offends me when they try to take the mantle of "good for the budget", when their champion ron paul voted for more of the debt than ALL of obama's policies combined.

It offends me when they ignorantly hope for a flat tax (which hurts them)

It offends me when they desire the gold standard (which hurts them)

people offend when they uncritically repeat and vote for policies that hurt them.

Fiscally it is the best. However, your social issues and foreign policy of hands off are too lax and uncaring.

It all sounds nice, until you try and make it work in the real world.

The whole marijuana legalization annoys me, as I think it needs to stay illegal. Other than that, nothing.