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I honestly cannot support the Libertarian party due to ethical reason I find personally. Abortion and drugs and so forth.
I would love to see a new 2 party system though. Constitution / Libertarian system. Both dont trust the gov so I think the two parties will keep the country better balanced.
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Hey man, just because you don't want the Government to regulate it does not mean you support it.
Example: I do not support abortion or drug use, but I definitely don't want the government to make that choice for me and everyone else. The point of Libertarianism is that you have the freedom to choose, and the responsibility to do what is right for yourself. Just because you may have the legal right to do something (like put what ever you damn well please into your body) does not mean you have to do it. There is nothing ethically wrong with you if your government does not regulate something you wouldn't do. Forcing others to fit into your perspective of what is ethical or not should raise a red flag, because you are in turn taking the responsibility out of the citizen’s hand to do the right thing and putting it into the government’s hand.
The big leap that people need to enlighten themselves to is: Just because something is legal it doesn't make it morally or ethically right, and the government is not around to make every single moral choice for you by making certain actions deemed legal and illegal (if you exercised your 1st amendment right to it's fullest extent, you would be a total asshole, because you could be rude, and crude to everyone, but you don't, talk smack at every opportunity, do you?) the point being, you are being responsible and following your own ethics and morals. The government should be minimalistic, the fat needs to be trimmed, the point of Libertarianism is to get back to the basics and have the governments enforce the basic laws like victim crimes, and our sovereignty as a nation, cut the social programs that give incentives to criminals, repeal unconstitutional laws, enfroce real crime with real punishments, and give back the power of personal responsibility to the citizen.