There is something that really worries me about the current young libertarians that I see sprout all over the Western Hemisphere.

On one hand, it obviously gives me hope to see a new(er) generation. On the other, I think they are growing up very one-sidedly anti-woke and anti-left.

It makes sense, since the current status quo in our Western Corporatist Regimes has found in leftist rethoric and to a large degree leftist policies a very effective dress under which it can hide its Corporatist core.

But allow me to remind you that before the wokes, there were the Evangelicals, which sprouted from Reagan's "Revolution". I can place the beginning of the current "culture wars" used by the Uniparty in the US to cover up its malfeasance and the relentless progress towards an overtly totalitarian regime.

My point being, one day, as suddenly as Dubya Bush and his Born Again Halliburtonites disappeared, the Obama cult of islamomarxist tranny vaccinators will simply be discarded by the Uniparty, and we'll go full swing back to "the right".

And I don't know if this younger generation of nominal libertarians are ready to be as harsh with those who will at the core be advancing the exact same agenda, but dress "modestly" while attending Sunday school.

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It's an interesting thought. We've clearly seen some of the previous generation of libertarians who fell for a lot of the left-wing woke stuff. That seems to fit your model, since they were one-sidedly anti-right.

I am both anti-right and anti-left, precisely because I am an anarchist-leaning libertarian. That's exactly what I'm pointing out.

Lots of conservatives posing as libertarians today. They will be weeded out, just like many "progressives" passing as libertarians were weeded out last time.

Given this pendulum swing to the right won’t just be about shifting aesthetics or social norms (as the last swings left were) but rather a hard reset of society such that society doesn’t experience population collapse or go through protracted depressions dealing with this financial system, I think you’re right to be concerned.

It’s much more likely those young libertarians will be co-opted / find middle ground with the right as this time will seem more existential which means coalition building to return stability.

The silver lining is the Austrian school has never had this much visibility and traction and a whole bunch of hardcore libertarians will be amongst the new financial elites thanks to Bitcoin so we could expect a massive inversion that has staying power for at least some generations to come.