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But libertarian theory considers the State to be illegitimate. I also don't know what you mean by a group who has an "obligation to fulfill said rights". The only obligation people have is to refrain from committing aggression against individuals or their property. The only justified use of force is in self defense. What this means is that I should have no right to pre-emptively initiate force against a person because he belongs to a group that is more likely to commit crimes in the future.

1. The modern libertarian movement is very young. It's roots can be traced back centuries, but Austrian economics and libertarian anarchist theory did not reach it's maturity or enter the public consciousness until the 1970s. If you look at where the libertarian movement was in 1970 and where it is today, you'll see that there has been exponential growth in a relatively short period of time. I appreciate that you are curious about AnCap theory, but I really think you should be focused on considering whether the theory is true first and foremost. Given the madness of contemporary times, ideas that are true and virtuous are not necessarily being embraced by the masses. Revolutions take time to catch on. The modern libertarian movement is only a few decades old and we're up against more than a century of deeply ingrained propaganda that we have to dislodge from the public consciousness. 2. I completely agree that the US military empire has spread nothing but death and destruction across the globe. Any notions of "spreading freedom" through government force are nothing but canards to bamboozle the public. It's about military arms sales, mercantilism, and ambitions of global domination. The humanitarian justification for war has always been a shallow and transparent pretext. Yes, many democracies have a bill of rights, but I don't think you could argue that the voluminous writings of our founding generation weren't somewhat unique in that they were informed by Enlightenment-Era classical liberal thinking. School children are still regaled with tales of the Revolutionary War, and how our patriotic forefathers fought for independence against the British because they wanted to be free. There are many countries that have nothing similar to this as a shared heritage. Some cultures have nothing but centuries of brutal warlords and socialist misery to look back on and the ideas of Natural Rights and the market economy are simply foreign to them. I wish you all the best in dealing with your immigration problem in Europe, but I won't be voting for Trump in 2020. I very well may not vote at all, barring an exceptional libertarian candidate who's a lot more impressive than Gary Johnson.

Do the behaviours of libertarians coincide with their words at all? If I were a libertarian or an anarchist, I would move to the place where there is the most amount of liberty. I have tried a number of times to engage with people on the forums to try to figure out where the most liberty is to be found, but pretty much everyone seems disinterested. By the way, is Mr.Molyneux still in socialist Canada? If so, why? Does he not care about his daughter who will grow up under Communism? He could be producing videos in the Svalbard Islands or in Zug equally well; he doesn't need to be in Canada. As far as I know, libertarians and anarchists are lazy idealists (salute the exceptions). Supporting Trump is the smallest of their cardinal sins.