link to original reddit post by /u/Anenome5
Many things that we as libertarians have concluded which are radical but clearly quite true, that differ from the ordinary understanding of the world, are very difficult to get the ordinary non-ideological people to accept. Why is this?
For example, we conclude that taxation is theft, that mandates are wrong, that the CIA is a criminal organization, that drugs and prostitution must be legalized, etc., etc. All are necessarily true for people who value individual liberty, and just about every person in the US would say that they value individual liberty in abstract terms.
It is certainly true that people accept the situation they are born into as the 'default case', that our brains as children as designed to accept and adapt to the situation we find ourselves in.
This is as true for people growing up in the relative paradise of a first world society as it is for the youth born into a New Korean prison camp who has no conception much less experience of personal liberty or self-determination.
But because things are going so well in the first world generally, people have a tendency to feel they don't need to become knowledgeable about what's going on, especially in politics which appears as one big morass of conflict and has the social penalty of being very impolite to discuss with random people therefore.
But what I have realized, the reason why people are so resistant to these conclusions is that people are outsourcing their thinking to others, they are abrogating responsibility by relying on the statements and conclusions of others.
We've all probably seen street-camera videos where a guy walks around with a mic telling people that Obama supports X policy and asking if they do too, and if they like Obama they say yes. Then it is revealed that X policy is actually supported by Bush or whoever, the opponent of Obama, and people are all shocked Pikachu face.
They aren't reasoning at all, they don't even HAVE principled ethical convictions, it's pure tribalism!
This only changes when things get so bad that people have to become personally involved. Venezuelans learned a lot about money when their government fucked their money over so bad that everyone began starving.
I don't know what how we change or exploit such a situation, but damn it's a sad state of affairs. Most of us here are INTJs and it's because the INTJ mentality is one that refuses to accept the statements of others and we have to understand it for ourselves, inevitably resulting in becoming educated about these things and not taking other people's word for it.