As most know or suspect, I'm a proud pinko-commie - or somewhere in that political region.  By my place on the political table however, you would expect that I would find at least some common ground with libertarians and no ground with the conservatives.  While that is the case, there is something about the hardcore libertarian philosophy that I dislike more than the ideals of any staunch conservative.  I mean, staunch conservatives are just stupid - usually without empathy (human rights?) or a decent grasp of reality to boot (global warming and evolution denial anyone?).  Libertarians however are a bit more, troubling.  They're smaller in number, yes, but their persistance toward a free market and paranoia of the state is simply cultish, intellectually immature, and at times unrealistically utopian (and when a pinko-commie says that, there's something wrong).  While certainly not applicable to all libertarians (as are my comments toward all conservatives), here's a fun article on follies of rabid libertarianism:  www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/floating_utopias.

"Libertarianism is by no means a unified movement. As many of its advocates proudly stress, it comprises a taxonomy of bickering branches—minarchists, objectivists, paleo- and neolibertarians, agorists, et various al.—just like a real social theory. Claiming a lineage with post-Enlightenment classical liberalism, as well as in some cases with the resoundingly portentous blatherings of Ayn Rand, all of its variants are characterized, to differing degrees, by fervent, even cultish, faith in what is quaintly termed the “free” market, and extreme antipathy to that vaguely conceived bogeyman, “the state,” with its regulatory and fiscal powers."