Being libertarian because you want to smoke pot versus not trusting a authority that has the power to ban it at the state/federal level. My aggravation since being a high schooler is how the former became the household definition, because the mode averaged person has an allergy to cynicism for some gods' forsaken reason. These naive idealists, coinciding with single-issue fuckwads, are so invirtuously useless for society that the proggie NPC has a point when he paints a libertarian as a social loser living in fantasies. Then we have anarcho-capitalism, a designation stemming from humans irresistible urge to subdivide into counterproductive tribes, to be divided and conquered by the outside culture. Any hypothetical minarchist state and ancapistan would be indistinguishable in practice.
Paleoconservative/paleolibertarian would be great brands if they weren't syllablistic vomit doomed to irrelevancy to the average Westerner. Would someone notable start a movement that isn't complete anathema to social marketing, but not so vague as to be amorphously inclusionary? I propose the axiomatic party. Principled yet without delusion, unique, and only slightly more grating to pronounce than "Democratic" or "Republican". I suggest taking a lesson out of Heinlein's History and Moral Philosophy class, sticking to uncomfortable, unambiguous social truths as a serious science. Of course the conditions in Starship Troopers were different, where hard men emerged out of truly hard times, and not bread and circuses limbo we're stuck in.
If my axiomatic ideal were attempted in my lif, neurotypes and grifters would just pervert the meaning like they did to liberalism. Principled will be confused with being a dense zealot. But really, libertarianism needs to rebrand.
Getting high is a "basic right"? Where did you get that ridiculous idea?
The idea of "well the rich people will own everything" is commie talk. Wealth is created by one exceptional man then squandered by his progeny in two or three generations. That churn is all of the "redistribution" we need.
If you are in a crappy position you develop a specialized skill or a relationship with someone in a higher position in hopes of taking advantage of an opportunity to move up. Feeling resentful because other people have it better is giving in to the evil whispers of the spirit of Cain.
You participate because you understand that God placed you at your station in life for a reason, even if you don't understand it, and that your reward is in heaven with Him and not on this earth.
You spoke of drug use in the same post as "fundamental liberal premise that people are 'equal'". I assumed you were meaning that universal equality and recreational drug use are concepts that should be treated the same.
Material wealth is temporal and vain, sure, but I believe that accepting fate and hinging one's purpose in life on something that has no tangible observable evidence, aside from "this world is so complex and elegant", can be a life "squandered", but... whatever helps you sleep at night. Not saying God doesn't exist, but I don't think humans truly understand exactly what they receive when life passes.