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The Liberated Territories wrote:

Actually I am wondering if I should drop the label "libertarian" entirely, because it is increasingly been seen in my eyes as shorthand for apology to autocracy with the pro-monarchial sentiments of a lot of libertarians and an irrational hatred of democracy, increasingly associated with racists and other fringe media like Cantwell and to an extent Molyneux, and becoming incredibly principled to the point of inflexibility, among other concerns...
In most cases these things wouldn't bother me, but if I were to actually walk the talk of individualism and freedom, I'd rather become a label spurning hipster, political independent, and not bound to labels to define my political positions. I think I'd feel a lot more freedom if I wasn't bound or associated with dogma - something that turned me away from the even more hyper principled and cultish Objectivism in the first place.
But nah I bet you guys don't care much anyway. Self indulged personal petty problems. hrumf.

There is nothing irrational about hating democracy. It's irrational to support it, or believe it gives people any control of the government.