Understanding statism
Libertarians understand statists (and their positions) better than statists understand libertarians (and better than statists understand statists). I believe that's always going to be the case.
If you pay any attention and have any familiarity with libertarians and statists and their interactions, you're going to see it, too.
Partly, it's because we may have once had statist leanings ourselves, and also because we are constantly exposed to and immersed in statist ideology (and superstition). We can't escape it. We have no "silo" to hide in. Not that most of us would want to hide since exposing and ridiculing statism is so much fun-- although little vacations into such a silo could be relaxing.
It's also because libertarians are simply better, more clear thinkers than statists. It sounds arrogant and rude to say so, but that doesn't alter the facts. That doesn't mean we are never wrong; just that we are wrong much less often, and in smaller ways, than statists.
Statists are just wrong piled on top of wrong; they are usually even wrong about where/how they might be wrong. They simply don't understand at all, even while imagining they do.
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I am over-generalizing, perhaps, but...
There are few leftists who can articulate what anyone outside leftism thinks, and so they prefer strawman arguments and insults. Disagreement results in being charged with heartless, selfish, fascistic disregard for others.
Some right-wingers can articulate libertarian and leftist ideas, but they are rare. Expect to be called a godless commie traitor who should move to Somalia most of the time when you challenge their beliefs.
Libertarians often just mock both the left and the right, but by and large, can explain what they each believe and some reasons why they may believe it if pressed. But we get tired of trying to get the idea of liberty through their thick skulls. So entertaining ourselves with mockery seems like the only thing left sometimes.
Agreed.