The future of libertarnism

I know this is super late, but all I was trying to say was that people (at least in the US) want both loads of freedom and the government to do things for em, which doesn't go hand in hand. If the masses want to have the power, they aught to at least know what it is they are doing.

In the United States, Libertarians just want as limited a government as it can possibly get. There's trouble in making a sweeping generalization, and Libertarians have that issue. We can't just throw away our military and expect to not be attacked by the violent forces in the world. We can't leave absolutely everything to the free market and expect for everyone to have an acceptable condition of living. However, the opposite sweeping generalization is also made. "The government should have their hands on everything". There's plenty of evidence all around that showcase the US governments failures, while at the same time showcasing the success the free market had in place of those failures. The Libertarian ideal states that the government always does a worse job, and in most cases that's absolutely right, at least in general terms. If you want your small time low population city to have a nice park, it's probably going to have to be funded by the government, because the private interest is likely not there (though that's not to say that it can't be there). However if you're in New York City, the government likely can't maintain a park, and can't effectively police public property. When an NYC park becomes private property, profits can be made, and you can enforce security on people you don't want to be within the park, such as homeless or shady people, providing a friendlier environment for the community. These sorts of examples can be found in a variety of different businesses. Education was what I used to think was one of their more radical ideologies, that we should abolish the public school system and privatize education. However it's no secret that our public schooling is beyond salvation at this point, especially in comparison to the rest of the world, but it's an entirely different story if you check out private schools. The government would be necessary to facilitate private business in order to ensure the consumers are treated correctly, but beyond that there's a lot of places where the government fails, and does nothing but fail. Even the things that it should be doing to help private businesses are things they are often not doing. Protecting us from monopolies is one, and ensuring we are provided adequate healthcare is another. There are clear and optimal solutions to the things they are failing at, and they generally don't enact any of them. Because of this lack of of a powerful government, what naturally follows suit is a lack of laws concerning our day to day lives. The libertarian party tends to agree with age restrictions, but when it comes to drugs they would prefer the government stay out of it. You can find more severe opinions if you look for them, but primarily they just want to legalize weed. Low taxes also follow. To begin with, by cutting all of the government funded programs, you cut the majority of the need for any taxation. Although this is the natural occurrence, they are also against taxation as a whole. They don't want zero government, and naturally don't want zero taxation, but it should be as little as possible. Their ideal is that people can and will deal with their own problems as a society. Of course their ideals, even to me, are outlandish. That said, they have strong points when it comes to the failures of the government, and it's something that we can see as visibly as the progress made by Space X in terms of space travel as a means of entertainment.