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See my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33303801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33303801 and the Pew Research survey at https://www.pewres
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See my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33303801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33303801 and the Pew Research survey at https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/25/in-search-of-libertarians/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/25/in-search-o....
In the U.S., self-described libertarians as a whole do not uniformly hold the views that you assume they hold. When 11% of people in the U.S. describe themselves as libertarians and correctly identify the term per Pew Research's definition ("someone whose political views emphasize individual freedom by limiting the role of government"), yet only 1.2% of U.S. voters chose the Libertarian Party ticket in the 2020 U.S. presidential election despite a 66.8% turnout rate,* you are not accounting for most libertarians in the U.S. when you limit your awareness of libertarianism to what is presented in the Libertarian Party platform.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...