link to original reddit post by /u/Anen-o-me
Shining light on something to "expose it" presupposes that your audience shares your values.
If they do not, they may look at the thing that outrages you and shrug their shoulders.
This explains why a lot of libertarian media fails to connect to the broader cultural zeitgeist. People who value liberty over security or equality are relatively rare in the world today.
The left chases equality / justice and the right chases security. It seems they have fallen into these roles primarily because they can be easily emotionally driven.
The right will scare you about how awful the world will be if the left gets into power domestically, and then scare you about how awful the world will be if the left gets into power internationally. It's a cold war attitude and largely the product of neoliberals, who were former Marxists, taking over the republican party.
The left pushers equality/ justice and outrages their people about obvious violations of the same by the powers that be, while pushing their utopian vision of progress into a perfected society, aka the musical claim of historicism.
Both can be easily monetized once in office by politicians and special interests, the Libertarian ideology cannot be.
And there's the rub.
The people that we are drawing into libertarianism are the remnant of society, largely predisposed to seek out liberty as a political value. Counterculture minds willing to think things through for themselves.
The State and culture teaches these values to the young at birth, creating a self perpetuating system. High schools graduate a thousand implicit statists for every convert we make.
And that's okay. The libertarians that went before us have done the hard work and brought millions into knowledge and support of political liberty.
Today we have the numbers and the wealth to engage in liberty ventures. The Free State Project is one of these, seasteading is another, cryptocurrency another, and there are many more to come. The Mises Institute is itself a liberty venture. And maybe you, reading this, will lead the next venture someday.
I expect we will see these projects increase in number and begin bearing real fruit in the next few decades.
Cryptocurrency will continue to grow, one day taking State currency head on, and I expect seasteading to become a real option within that time too.
We have a lot to look forward to, and the next few decades are an exciting time to be a libertarian!