Why are ya'll so afraid of libertarians. They get like 3% of the vote.

[Blue_Tires]

128. I'd want nothing to do with the libertarians I've known locally

To a man, their most important beliefs are:

1. Don't want to have to pay taxes
2. Wants completely unregulated businesses and industries
3. Unfettered access to guns
4. (In so many words) Freedom to discriminate against whoever, without being called out as racist/sexist/etc.

And these are libertarian party members -- They even tried recruiting me back in the day...My little quickie litmus test on libertarians is where they stand on social issues, and as you guessed, they are usually anti-reproductive rights and anti GLBT marriage...One of them with a completely straight face even tried to defend racial profiling to me back when the Florida Highway Patrol settlement was in the news(!)...

So how did libertarians as a party get so bloody goddamned inconsistent? For years why have they let clowns represent or speak for the party when they clearly were NOT libertarians, save for one or two issues? How do people as batshit insane as Alex Jones or Bob Barr rise so high as prominent voices of the party? Given its current makeup, why on Earth would I want to associate with a party where most of the outspoken voices are crazies, extremists and conspiracy loons?
Why did a party celebrating personal religious freedoms slowly but surely get overcome by fundamentalist Judeo-Christian -only hardliners? Why are modern libertarians so eager to ditch the yoke of government oppression only to happily replace it with a yoke of corporate oppression, and just hope the 'market works itself out?' When did libertarianism start morphing from "Freedom and liberty for all," to "Freedom and liberty for ME, people like me and motherfuck everyone else?"

I can only speak for myself and where I've lived...Maybe the libertarians in your hometown are sane or something...