A lot of extremely normal people I have known in my time ever described anarchy as basically libertarianism, in a genre similar to posting images of devastation happening right now in the US under Republican policies with a snide, "This is what the socialists want."
"Oh so just nobody has any responsibility for anything at all, huh? How's that going to work, dumbass?" 🙄 [votes for the guy whose entire political platform is No One Is Responsible for Anything, Especially Not You, the Universe's Perfect Child]
I feel like there is and I'm just not recalling it. "Projection" doesn't quite cover it and it's similar to how crypto shit ropes people in. It's like motte-and-bailey by proxy. Features include:
- The actual belief is so obviously wishful thinking and blatant self-interest that an ostensibly reasonable person can easily assume it can't be as fucked up as it sounds and invent the missing nuance themselves.
- Those people then argue in favor of the position based on justifications that exist only in their own heads.
- It pretty much exclusively works on reactionary positions, in part because you must invent the nuance yourself, which locks the position to something you already think sounds reasonable and want to be true.
- If you fall for this you'll think your opponents have done the same thing, and so your arguments revolve around convincing everyone of that rather than the actual position.
The difference between this and saying, "I think this could work if [conditions] were met" is that the only real goal of presenting one argument as reasonable here is to undermine and cast doubt on the opposing position.