Libertarianism is a cult of money and property.
I don't "believe" in either.
Money and property rights are not my god.
A safe secure place to live, a place to keep one's "stuff" protected from unreasonable search and seizure, free from the threat of forced relocation except in the most dire natural situations (volcanos, rising oceans, etc...), that's a human right, not a property right.
Good food to eat, appropriate medical care, the education to make oneself a literate and informed person... those are human rights too.
Beyond that the means of accomplishing these goals are many.
Looking around the modern world it's the mixed economies that seem to work best, places where about half the economic activity is socialist and the rest of the economy is a well-regulated free markets.
The economy we have now in the U.S.A. is pretty damned ugly. Large corporations have too much power within our government.
I think reason.com type libertarians recognize the fascist nature of the present U.S. economy (especially when it interferes with their sex lives, pot smoking habits, automobile fetishes, etc...) but they tend to be very easily duped by the fascists and plutocrats and are often blind to their own racism, misogyny, and disdain for the poor. Many of them cheerfully supported Ronald Reagan not realizing he was the shallow puppet of ugly corporate authoritarians who were not "libertarian" in any sense, thus paving the way for the current plutocracy.
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