It isn’t cynical libertarianism, it’s pragmatism and understanding the cost of using energy. It costs 100x as much to spend your days, time, energy, and mind focused on politics, while the difference in the outcome is indistinguishable regarding who wins the election when looking at basically any meaningful stats or outcomes. Debt is going to explode upward, doesn’t matter who’s in office. Military complex will grow further. Govt will get bigger. Etc etc Yet just a small amount of energy and time spent on decentralized protocols, on adopting and spreading understanding of sound money, or using a social network that cannot be censored, or spreading the signal and helping others to stop wasting time on lost causes that black hole our precious time and money. You call it cynicism likely because you frame the world with politics at its center. You think I’m ignoring reality I call it pragmatism because I realize politics is a game show designed to trick you into thinking it’s the center of the world. I actually live in reality, while you play reality TV. I say this with respect, I think we have very different ideas as to what really moves the world. I’m not defeatist, I think putting politics at the center of everything happens in the mind of someone already totally defeated.