Its because their entire philosophical outlook is so warped they can ' t even be logical . Most people who legitimately and honestly understand socialist thinking and analysis of capitalism generally agree with many of its conclusions but dismiss it as a viable way of life and are content to try and mitigate the inequality issues with reasonable state influence . Most Americans who don ' t know wtf socialism really is basically can ' t understand capitalism properly so they can ' t logically analyse the problems inherent to their extant system properly and blame a lot of the wrong things . Really I think American libertarians are handicapped and can ' t properly understand the values of the enlightenment because of their unique issue with understanding political theory beyond their narrow view point . I mean , they don ' t even know they ' re misusing the term libertarian , and those An Cap motherfuckers really are taking the piss by using Anarchism .