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Evidently he's hoping for the revolution.
What (L)ibertarians often gloss over is that quite a few of them believe the system has to get so bad and the state so powerful, that armed revolution is the only answer.
Well, a lot of active libertarians have been pushing the ideological boundaries for years and the majority do not want to budge from the one party system. Which is already "so bad and so powerful" that any dissent is squashed. Nothing shy of cheating. Libertarians live by the nonaggression principles. But that does not mean self defense is off the table, and that means if the state, which is already totalitarian in nature threatens existence, there is but one option left...and it isn't protesting or organizing a sit in.
The one thing they havent done yet is man the barricades. if things are so bad why havent we seen revolt already occuring? And I dont mean the occasional soverign citizen or milita group basically fighting the local authorities over property taxes, I mean a real, serious effort to overthrow the government?
Revolutions do not occur until hardly anyone has anything left to protect, practically all of us still have TVs and cable, internet, at least one shitty job to keep a roof over our heads and numerous other perks of western civilization that keep us quiet and relatively happy. Those who have these things and still talk of revolution are not serious, more like a fantasy revolution league.