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Nice to see a bit of reasonable discussion about this topic, not the girlish whining you usually hear from the corporatist "republican" right wingers.
Sadly, libertarians can't govern, and I say this as a lifelong registered and donating libertarian. There is an inherent flaw in libertarian political theory, in that it depends on an intelligent and well educated population.
Which we do not have, and arguably cannot have.
I often use the term "corporatist" as a way of indicating the political theory that we are really ruled by a class of elites that use the artificial personhood of corporations to hide and manipulate.
Both republicans and democrats are actually corporatists, in this model. The media is a wholly owned product of corporatist influence. yada yada yada.
And there is no easy way out of this situation, short of a a massive change in electoral policy that takes the money out of elections, combining with an equally massive shift in corruption investigations that assumes that politicians are corruptible, rather than treating them like mini kings and queens who are unimpeachable and beyond reproach.
And this is unlikely to happen.
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