I've also never met a true libertarian. Every self proclaimed libertarian I've ever met have fallen into 2 categories:
Desenfranchised repub or repub trying to sound unique or smart.
for example, one of my friends was a huge libertarian. Especially when it came to taxes, education, and health care. Yet, he was adament about enforcing drug laws, maintaining gay marriage/discrimination bans, and was a huge supporter of the Bush wars. So basically, he was just a desenfranchised republican. He felt like the GOP had back stabbed him with tarp.
Libertarians a repub trying to sound smart. In reality, their policies and philosophy look nice on paper but don't work in a globalized reality.
The Koch bros, the poster children for libertarianism. Even they put the whole philosophy on hold when it came to the 08 crisis. Originally, Americans for Prosperity (their mouthpiece masquerading as a think tank) was against tarp. But after a few days of stocks falling, the organization changed sides and met with members of congress to pass tarp.
The poster girl for libertarianism, Ayn Rand, was against social security and Medicare until she became old and destitute. Then, suddenly, she forgot her anti-gubbamint philosophy and joined the masses drinking from the public trough.
Again, libertarians are against gubbamint intervention until they want/need its services.
Hi, my name is Gameface. I'm a type of libertarian you haven't met yet.
I'd kindly ask you to go...Humm, I think I've been warned about this stuff... please go please yourself aggressively. Thank you..