Well that is the defining libertarian answer. However, outside of Utah, where do you see strong communal institutions? They don’t seem to exist. Remember one of the arguments why the African-American inner cities went to hell in the 1970 – 1980s? Some of it was blamed on de-segregation when the Black Middle Class (ie the Cosbys) move to the suburbs. And the rural WWC towns appear to a slower moving version of the Middle/Upper Class slowly moving away leaving. So when libertarians say communal institutions are the solution, then they should know better that communal solutions will do anything.

I can understand the confusion since people who greatly value communal institutions are more likely than others to favor making participation therein mandatory, and libertarians are more likely than others to dislike even voluntary communal institutions, but that doesn’t mean position necessarily follows from the other.

A ‘communitarian voluntarist’ (nice coinage?) might agree with a communitarian on the usefulness or necessity of communal institutions but would disagree with the premise of innate collective responsibility that communitarians use to justify mandatory participation in communal institutions.

And I always assumed Ron Paul was more successful than his son, Rand, because Ron Paul did speak well of local community institutions in his lifetime versus his son that appears to read ZeroHedge several times a week. So yea it does seem like libertarians are either, ZeroHedge or Benedict Option types.