So... I am a libertarian as opposed to a conservative, but in the fashion of Rand Paul. I just find that advocating for liberty (freedom given that you afford the same freedoms to others) is the most safe political ideology. It is not perfect and bad things will still happen under it, but I think that less bad things will happen then under an authoritarian system or a system that is semi-authoritarian.
I wanted however to discuss the fundamental issue of libertarianism and why the libertarian party is the cuckold of political parties.
It goes back to the question of what does X society like? In this case replace X with libertarian.
What does a libertarian society like?
What is good for the libertarian society to maintain itself is different from what libertarian men want. This actually goes into the definition of left and right in a way.
What this is to say that the expansion of liberty can threaten other liberties and open the room for authoritarianism, whereas preventing the expansion of liberty is counter to the nature of being a libertarian.
The libertarian party in this way is all about expanding liberty, whereas I personally desire to preserve liberty first and focus on a slow and safe expansion that does not violate other liberties that exist.
Expansion vs. Preservation may well be the battle between Left vs. Right, though both political parties have various policies that are opposite of the definition that came about naturally for political advantage.
This is one of the fundamental problems of both libertarianism and politics and why I dislike the libertarian party and like Trump.
It is also why I am not on board with mass immigration and globalism as I view them as a threat to liberty as changing a countries character through mass importation, while not just economically destructive, it changes the character and allows for the establishment and rise of authoritarianism out of those imported. And globalism is a threat to liberty as it allows corporations to get government backing, which is real bad and violates capitalism as an economic framework and it prevents competition/imposes impossible barriers to climb to compete, because of special privileges by a multitude of foreign governments who can use corporations as pawns in games.
There is other things that are away from the libertarian framework that I am closer to in regards to being conservative, such as being a departurist.
Personally, I don’t even really like the libertarian tag (nor do I like the conservatarians as they are not actually consistent to this idea). I think I would identify myself more as a preservitarian if I had to come up with a name.
I believe that the Libertarian party is largely run by loons.
Further, as opposed to being a political party, I believe that it would be better used as an operating principle, that principle being to provide just enough regulation to keep the train on the tracks and no more... and that any regulation should reside as closely to the people who are regulated as possible. Pretty much as codified in the Constitution.
The problem with libertarianism as a movement as opposed to a philosophy is that there isn't a lot of cohesion when people think their way is best or that they have some right to not be made uncomfortable.