Political Memes

Only talking about right wing libertarians because they're who this meme is clearly about, and left libertarians have very little in common with fascists.

Theoretically libertarians support individual freedoms including in the face of social and religious institutions. Their platonic ideal would support women's and queer liberation, personally oppose racism (but would support every individual's right to be bigoted). They'd be in favor of the right to use drugs. They'd oppose religious power. They'd believe minorities and women should arm ourselves. They'd be pro abortion, transition, and whatever else you want to do to your body. But most importantly they'd want the government to stop getting involved in your life, and that would be especially true when talking about cops.

Now, these people are rare these days, and some of these points were always unpopular amongst them. Back in the day they used to talk about wanting a gay married couple to defend their pot farm with guns. But they courted and cooperated with the technocrats, the theocrats, and the rest of the right. They refused to build ties and intellectual conversations with the libertarian left and so they slowly stopped believing in a lot of these things. But most importantly a lot of them are pointless contrarians who don't want to do intellectual work or analyze their emotions. When their bigotry was challenged they decided they'd rather be bigoted than be free. Also the ideology always was incoherent, but let's be honest, that's never stopped an ideology before.

They're mostly fascists now. And part of me thinks we're the worse for it, because society does need a strong group of people saying "I don't have to like it to stand for your right to do it" in order to be free.