I throw myself on the mercy of the card catalogue cabinet!
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But with all seriousness, mask wearing is essentially over, and with the exception of doctor’ offices and hospitals, has been over since August or so. Starting April 3, they won’t even be required in healthcare settings in California, which AFAIK, is in line with federal CDC guidance.
But librarians are free to wear masks if they want.
It allows one to support regressive and authoritarian Republican measures and candidates without being labeled a Republican.
Seriously though, does it have any useful meaning today? There is a large spectrum of nutjobs: flat earthers, holocaust deniers, anti-vaxxers, young earth creationists, etc etc. Are they ‘libertarians’?
The term seems to have originated, oddly enough, in left-wing political circles, but appears to have been co-opted by right wing views in the 20th century. One wonders if any two self-proclaimed libertarians nowadays would find much to agree about?
Obligatory cartoon:
Oh yes, that does seem to cover most of the classic syndromes very well. Who is the cartoonist?
Looks like it’s B. Deutsch
I thought it was your Liberian friends. If you happen to visit this beautiful country of five million people and 43,000 square miles on your way to Sierra Leone.
Support for authoritarians is utterly inimical to libertarians. They may support Republicans but only because they are opposed to regulations and taxes. They are totally opposed to welfare, medicare and the like. The one I knew rather well was opposed to government infrastructure like streets and roads. He thought you should own the street in front of your house and be free to pave it or not, charge a toll for users (i.e. trespassers) and block it if you like. After getting a PhD in math, he became a lawyer and I lost track of him.
FWIW, I believe libertarians are completely against any restrictions on abortion.
But not to those that use the label as a cover.
Some years ago my niece’s new husband told me he was a libertarian. When I asked him what that meant, he only had some vague idea about “freedom”. 
You might think but I’ve heard many ‘pro-life libertarians’ espouse complete legal prohibition against abortion for all but absolute medical necessity (and some even not for that) to the extent of calling for capital punishment for physicians and nurse practitioners who perform them even when they are otherwise against state executions. There is a substantial overlap between self-identified ‘little-l’ libertarians and Evangelical Christians, and the disconnect between supposed freedom from state control and the forced imposition of religious strictures is a massive blind spot (more of a mountain, actually, that they pretend to not see).
I call those ‘liberticians’. They understand the general form of libertarianism in the broadest of strokes but can only walk through the motions of it with a procedure in hand.
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First thing that came to my mind:
Conan O’Brien: “We need to talk about the future”…
Andy Richter: “The Future, Conan?”
Conan: “That’s right, my contractual friend. The Future!”
(Cue intro for “In the year 2000 3000” sketch.)
I call those ‘liberticians’. They understand the general form of libertarianism in the broadest of strokes but can only walk through the motions of it… <<
I don’t know… IS there a ‘general’ form of libertarianism? Apart from a sort of overall dislike or distrust of authority and/or government? Which, to a very mild extent, I share myself…?