Therefore the ethics of using violence and threats are always and necessarily implicated in any question of politics, which is what all the fuss is about.

So there can be no presumption that a party promoting liberty and property, and one promoting theft and fraud under cover of law, stand on an equal moral footing, or are both necessary to keep "societies healthy and functioning". And it is not okay to confuse society and State: the issue is precisely the conflict of interest between them.

To say that there is a need for a "balance" between liberty, property and the productive class on the one hand, and thieving, fraud, and parasitism of the political class on the other; but that this balance is to be decided by the political process, i.e. by the State, is to say that your rights to freedom are nothing but the State says they are. It is a creed of unlimited state power, i.e. totalitarianism.

It's this creed:
"Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be a real thing, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. Therefore, for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State."
Mussolini

The so-called progressives are in truth nothing but fascists. They stand only for the freedom to obey.

That’s why they are incapable of any concept of social order that does not resolve to the State ordering people around. They think the State is the fountain of all moral and economic goods. It’s an irrational belief system, and the way we know that, is that their argument always rests on assumption which, when elucidated, prove self-contradictory, for example Chris Lewis's as I have just demonstrated.

The same cannot be said of libertarianism which is consistent in preferring voluntary relations over relations based on violence and fraud. And ultimately, that’s why full socialism doesn’t work but always either collapses, or falls back to parasitising an underlying capitalist system.

“Human Action” by Ludwig von Mises
http://mises.org/Books/humanaction.pdf