And the destruction of all individual and institutional family values that hold our society together...Libertarianism had a chance and proved not to be worthy.
Libertarianism has never "had a chance" because, in part, of the two-party-only mentality and the roadblocks put up by those two parties. Although Republicans seem eager to get Nader some votes...
I will admit, however, part of the problem is due to the LP platform. It does need tweaking. Even with those, it's still a hard sell, because people in general - especially the gullible leftists - have been brainwashed into believing there ARE no solutions unless they come from Washington, D.C. And there are those on the right that look at it in a similar vein. Between Hillary's "it takes a village" and the conservative mantra of "no man is an island", it's no wonder our lives will only be *more* controlled, not less. It's a brave new world.
The general philosophy of libertarianism is so alien, see above, that the average person automatically panics and wonders how they'd ever survive with even the loss of ONE government program, let alone most of them.