A very revealing article about the libertarian take over of the Democratic

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21. The Democratic Party has always had many factions,

including libertarians who lean more liberal socially, rather than libertarians who lean more conservative socially.

If this faction IS gaining more power at this time it's because of the power money gives them. And what's new about business-friendly factions driving most government policy since conservative economic policy took over the nation in the 1980s?

BTW, TRUE libertarians (not those who just pick a few libertarian ideas that sound good and call themselves libertarian) are a dangerous crowd, to almost everyone individually and to a democratic republic. They range from favoring a fairly mild anarchy with some structure (including dog-eat-dog capitalism), to anarchist, to nihilist.

Since the 1970s many wealthy libertarians have been busy dismantling the national structure built over the past century and more. For that, we can blame our own ignorance. No one knew who the Kochs were, for instance, before a year or two ago, yet over those decades we voted thousands of their and their colleagues' choices into office at literally every level and branch of government throughout the nation.