Inquiring Minds Want to Know, Part the First

Avid reader Jeff Miller recently posed the following question: What's the deal with Libertarians? We here at the Fiery Sword can't resist an opportunity to expound extemporaneously on subjects over which we have only the slightest mastery, as we take the often surprisingly acceptable results as further confirmation that we are Always Right About Stuff, so we had R'n'D work up this nifty little Q'n'A feature on their R'n'R time.

Well Jeff, some might tell you that Libertarians are pretty much just anarchists who prefer powerlines and interstate highways to homemade candles and moccasins. As to what, exactly, the deal is with them, we have prepared this answer, after perhaps a full two to three minutes of slightly distracted rumination:

The deal with Libertarians is that they thought that they were firmly ensconced in the well-heeled, self-satisfied embrace of the American right-wing, but owing to some careful political jujitsu by the Bush junta, they have awoken, crabby and disoriented, on the center-left, for all practical purposes. Let this fact inform your dealings with them, and you will find that things go much more smoothly.