Did you conservatives know that you are actually soft-socialists? It's sad because you think you're fighting against socialism, when in fact you don't realize you're socialists yourselves. Neither party actually reduces regulation or taxation, they just fight over what to spend it on.

And your arguments against the idea of a libertarian society reflect Bastiat's critique here:

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”

―Frédéric Bastiat

All I've said is I don't want the government to monopolize law, police, or courts--I want these to be provided privately on the market, but I am attacked as supporting 'anarchy'--where anarchy is taken to mean the popular misconception of one who wants a society without law, police, or courts. "Go to Somalia" they say, the warlords are the perfect example of anarchy!

Ironically conservatives are supposedly market-champions, but not when it comes to governance services. No, there the state monopoly must remain intact--because, and this is the dirty little secret: conservatives want to wield that power themselves.

But such statements are willingly ignorant. Because to accept my logic about anarchy is to leave the conservative movement. That's why you hate me and attack me, conservatives. Deep down you know it too. You cling to the rags of a minarchist mindset because you feel that to let go of your faith in a minimal government would leave you floating in space without an anchor, ideologically disoriented with no idea where you'd land.

I know this because I remember feeling that way. Anarcho-capitalism is scary and new, where there is no one right answer. This is threatening. That combined with your irrational attachment to the US as a nation-state keeps you coddled like a child wrapped in the constitution.

But the reason you should give up your belief in the state, in democracy, is that socialism is unsustainable, unstable, and unethical. Democracy sets up a dynamic of government exploitation of the people that cannot be avoided.

As I've said many times, and I don't think you conservatives have ever heard me, the root flaw of democracy is that it gives some people in society the power to force laws on everyone else in society. Any society built on this premise is built on the premise of tyranny.

As long as that situation obtains you will have bribing of politicians in order to obtain laws favorable to special interests. This will -always- happen, because if a business can get a law passed that costs each American just 50-cents a year, that's worth 150 million dollars to that business. But if you, as a citizen, spend more than 5-minutes opposing that law, you've lost money. And we know that it costs less than $100,000 to get a law passed in Washington, sometimes far less than that. Congressmen have been bribed for mere plane trips and $10k donations.

The system ancaps want to setup (decentralized law society) is one where bribery doesn't work anymore because no one can force laws on anyone else.

You don't want to accept it now? Perfectly fine with me. My communications with your side have only ever been an invitation, not a demand. Nothing about anarchy requires me to convince you or for you to join ancaps. We already have the numbers needed. Just a matter of building it now.