>First off, the unstated goal of most libertarian doctrine is basically the following: > > 1. Corporations are more “efficient” than the government because of the > “natural selection” of our capitalist system. > 2. Corporations are therefore better than the government at everything. > 3. Corporations should be the government, or at least in control of it. >

and >> But that means that the only way to get government out of business is to get business into government.

>> There's already a lot of money in Libertarian think tanks; it comes from business. The explosion of dedicated Libertarian volunteerism necessary to transform the United States has yet to materialize, even though the Republican Party has harnessed an explosion of socially conservative volunteerism in the service of the same business interests that benefit from Washington's "Libertarian" bullshit factories. Money from business interests provides the only real political pressure pushing policy in a Libertarian direction.

Yes, the libertarian "movement" in USA is quite undefined. Very often statements by referents get out of the core of the concept. For example:

* Privatization of large public sectors, but not making a proper market and destroying regulation, therefore placing monopolies or oligopolies (e.g. Enron's abuse of pricing.)

* Keeping a systems of taxes and special bailouts or credit lines to large corporations that never reach small business or individuals.

* Keeping the system of immunity of owners of corporations for the behavior of the organization (something that appeared after Adam Smith, and is more aligned with his economic rivals.)

* The backers of US mainstream (alleged) Libertarians (save Ron Paul) are mostly backed by the US military-industrial complex, an industry completely against free market and almost exclusively based on tax-dollars supplied by a gigantic war-mongering government.

And the list goes on. I'm sure there are true good Libertarians but the masses seem to be enchanted , yet again, by large anti-free market interests.

IMHO, Libertarians shouldn't support any large organization as it would just replace government with similar flaws. And a true Libertarian can't be part of the Republican Party.