LP Radicals regularly disparage efforts to make the Platform more accommodating of the non-anarchist majority of libertarians, using epithets like "nerf", "lite", "more-of-the-same", "wishy-washy", "watered down", "Republicanesque", "timid", "debased", "unprincipled", "Clintonian", and "mini-me".
Sometimes these radicals claim that a non-anarchist LP Platform would be indistinguishable from the positions of both the Republicans and Democrats. This claim exhibits astonishing ignorance. The Democrats in fact support laws regulating prices, minimum wages, maximum hours, equal pay, plant closure, family leave, hiring, firing, occupational licensure, insurance policies, zoning, rents, product safety, drug efficacy, fuel efficiency, pollution mitigation technology, parental media control, media copying technology, etc. The Democrats also stand for effectively socializing America's systems of education, health care, health insurance, agriculture, and retirement savings.
Other times these radicals merely claim that a non-anarchist LP Platform would be "Republican Lite". This too is ignorance. LP reformers despise the GOP's pandering to the religious right and its empty lip service to free markets. They regularly vilify the GOP for its tolerance of laws regulating prices, minimum wages, maximum hours, equal pay, plant closure, family leave, hiring, firing, occupational licensure, insurance policies, zoning, rents, product safety, drug efficacy, fuel efficiency, pollution mitigation technology, parental media control, media copying technology, etc. They berate the GOP for its failure to use its legislative majority to start privatizing any of our socialized systems of education, health care, health insurance, agriculture, and retirement savings. They bitterly attack the GOP for its support of regulations and bans on gambling, suicide, substance use, pornography, gay marriage, sexual services, reproductive services, and cloning.