Unfortunately, it takes some explaining and development to communicate this, and any time you have a complex idea like that, it can be overwhelmed by memes. One of the most popular that I’ve seen around the net sets up a strawman of a “typical conservative voter,” asks that voter if he wants limited government and a pure free-market society, and then points to a “perfect” example of those concepts in practice… in anarchist Somalia. Complete with a street scene of “exotic other” people toting guns and smiling with malice.

As Morbo would say, however, “Liberty does not work that way!” See, we can use memes too. True, the libertarians pay lip service to anarchy, mostly because they take what should be developed principles and deem them axiomatic, such as the non-initiation principle. Objectivists, meanwhile, know that anarchy is fruitless, and is really just trading one big despot for a million little despots. In neither case are individual rights protected.

Of course, only Objectivism holds that a constitutionally-enshrined government-monopoly on the use of force —& then only as retaliation— is the only means to protect the individual rights & freedoms of a nation’s citizens.