The LP isn't the solution to our problems. Take it from me: I was on staff during the Badnarik presidential campaign, a volunteer for many more LP candidates, and I worked at a large and well-known libertarian public policy shop. That was eleven years ago. Since then, the party and movement have degenerated so far that you have only to scratch the surface of a modern "libertarian" to find a right-wing Republican. The LP platform has been gutted, and my old think tank is increasingly beholden to conservative Republican board members and donors like Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers. LP = a joke. I don't even identify as a libertarian any more because I don't want to be associated with them.