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I'm confused too. Now I'm wondering if that figure seems so unrealistic because I don't expect blatantly obvious stupidity to come from libertarians. Would I find it just as surprising if a different political group believed an equally stupid thing in such numbers? Perhaps not.
I'm still skeptical.
Now I'm confused. I expect any significant political party (or similarly wide grouping of people) to produce blatantly obvious stupidity.
But you've been around here a while, you know all this stuff. So what am I missing? Why would you expect libertarianism to be an exception? (If there is a LW-appropriate answer.)
More that I didn't have a primed cache for "idiotic things people might say in support of libertarianism" that would be on the order of stupidity of "we aren't causing shitloads of global warming" or "there are WMDs (at the appropriate time)". Just a primed cache for "somewhat naive and oversimplistic things people might say in support of libertarinism". The more mainstream stupidities I am already desensitized to.
(Note that this train of thought is all along the lines of a "What is the nature of my confusion?" inquiry.)
Well, true enough. The first things in that category that come to mind for me are "the free market solves everything always without downsides" and "the government is going to kill me unless I stockpile canned goods and ordnance," but they're much less prominent views than the others.
Though, it's a rapidly growing party. Give them time, I'm sure they'll come up with something idiotic to champion.
Curious, one of the top entries in my primed cache of "idiotic things people might say in support of libertarianism" is "we aren't causing shitloads of global warming". It's the one of the most popular topics among libertarian columnists, beating out smoking, PC at the BBC, Europe and Laurie Penny. True, American Libertarians generally seem to be more contrarian than the sort we get in the UK, but I seem to remember both Bryan Caplan and Will Wilkinson making similar observations about the other side of the pond.